Tag: Emergency

Rescue-1122 plans to check fire incidents

The Punjab Emergency Service of Rescue-1122 is preparing a draft legislation on the fire prevention and community safety aimed at minimising risks to life...

ICT finalises monsoon emergency measures

The Islamabad administration, in coordination with all the departments concerned, has finalised the flood contingency plan, in view of the upcoming monsoon rains and...

Measures taken to meet emergency during monsoon

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday said the provincial government has adopted all precautionary measures to meet any emergency during expected...

Young doctors’ strike enters 4th day

The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab's strike against not getting service structure has entered fourth day on Thursday. The YDA also vowed to extend the...

Punjab doctors go on strike for service structure

After a lull of one-and-a-half month, Young Doctors Association (YDA) of Punjab resumed their strike against the provincial government for not proving them the...

Explosions rock churches in northern Nigerian city: agency

Explosions hit two churches in the restive northern Nigerian city of Zaria Sunday, in the latest violence in the region, emergency services and residents...

Gilgit-Baltistan CM praises Rescue 1122 academy’s efforts

Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Syed Mehdi Shah appreciated the Rescue 1122 Emergency Service Academy for training rescuers. He was addressing the 16th passing-out ceremony of more...

Rescue 1122 rescued 37,412 emergency victims in May: DG

Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer said that as many as 37,412 emergency victims were rescued by the emergency service...

PDMA bracing against the rain

Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Mujahid Sherdil has said the PDMA is responsible for immediate response to any emergency or disaster and...

‘Balochistan situation warrants emergency’

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said governments came and went, but “we have to save the country and if the prime minister does not...

Rescue 1122 trains KEMU students about basic life support

The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 has conducted a three-day training workshop to impart training about Basic Life Support to the students of the...

6000 applicants appear in recruitment test for Rescue 1122

The Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) on Tuesday conducted written test of over 6000 applicants to recruit emergency staff for 605 posts from Lahore,...

Bedside manners

Marriages of convenience are the mainstay of politics The much-married diva Elizabeth Taylor had an unanswerable riposte for a pesky reporter after one of her...

Nigeria police hit in first attack since emergency decree

Gunmen have attacked a police station in northern Nigeria’s Jigawa state, killing a teenage girl and wounding an officer in the first such incident...

Minister declares gas emergency in January

Petroleum Minister Dr Asim Hussain has announced that there will be gas emergency in country in January, a private TV channel reported. While talking to...

Saudi jet makes emergency landing

A Saudi Arabian chartered jet made an emergency belly landing in Karachi on Sunday after one of its nose wheels jammed, a civil aviation...

Kazakhstan orders state of emergency in Zhanaozen

Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Saturday ordered a state of emergency in the Caspian town of Zhanaozen after clashes between police and laid off...