Tag: Emergency

The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)’s emergency response centre was inaugurated by the national carrier’s Managing Director Nadeem Khan Yousufzai on Tuesday. According to a...

The Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) has recently impounded a plane of Shaheen Air at the Dubai Airport, sources informed Pakistan Today. The aircraft...

Bahrain's King Hamad ordered Sunday an end to the state of emergency from June 1st, after it was declared in mid-March to tackle a...

DAMASCUS - Syrian authorities arrested an opposition figure in the restive city of Homs, an activist said Wednesday as rights groups derided the government's move to end decades of draconian emergency rule.
Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Mahmud Issa was taken into custody in Homs Tuesday, hours after the cabinet approved a bill to rescind the state of emergency. The bill will now go before parliament, which is not due to meet until after May 2.

DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was on Wednesday set to lift the emergency law in place since 1963, reported the Al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the regime.
"The presidency of the republic will today enact three decrees on the lifting of the emergency law, the abolition of the State Security Court and the regulation of peaceful demonstrations," the daily quoted an unnamed senior official as saying.
"This package is part of a strategic programme of political

DAMASCUS - The Syrian parliament is preparing to adopt major reforms in May, including an end to emergency rule, a politician close to the regime said Wednesday. "There will be an extraordinary session from May 2 to 6 in which social and political laws will be adopted in line with the reforms desired by the head of state," said the politician.
"Among them is new legislation that will replace the current emergency law," he said, adding that the proposed bill will be presented to

DAMASCUS - President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday blamed conspirators for unrest sweeping Syria but failed to lift emergency rule or offer other concessions in his first speech since pro-reform protests erupted two weeks ago.
In a highly anticipated address to parliament that lasted almost one hour, Assad warned Syria's "enemies" were targetting its unity but made no mention of any plans to lift the state of emergency. "We are all for reform. That is the duty of the state. But we

LAHORE - The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has decided not to attend to emergency patients in public sector hospitals and has announced penalising the doctors who dare disobey the announcement.
"The doctors will not even attend to government servants, police officials or secretariat employees. No young doctor will offer his services in emergency and if any doctor violated the order, he will be punished by YDA office bearers," said YDA President Dr Hamid Butt.
YDA has

BRUSSELS - European Central Bank support should mean Ireland will not have to spend more than the 35 billion euros set aside to recapitalise its banks and it may also get a cheaper bailout deal next month, an EU source has said. ECB plans to give medium-term funding to Irish banks, revealed to Reuters by a eurozone central banking source, has neutralised the risk that fresh stress tests on the wrecked lenders would cripple an EU-IMF bailout deal. "We have no reason to think that the

DAMASCUS/AMMAN - The decision to lift emergency rule in Syria, which has been in place since 1963, has "already been made", a presidential adviser said Sunday. "The decision to lift the emergency law has already been made. But I do not know about the time frame," Buthaina Shaaban told AFP in an interview at her office.
Syria's emergency law, put in place when the ruling Baath party rose to power in March 1963, imposes restrictions on public gatherings and movement and authorises

LAHORE - Educational experts and citizens, on Thursday, have expressed concern over the revelations of the report issued by Pakistan Education Task Force (PETF) that says that Pakistan has been crippled by an education emergency that threatens tens of millions of children. A senior analyst and Pakistan Law College Principal Dr Humayun Ehsan said no government throughout country's history was serious for promoting education. He said that the current leadership lacked political will,

LAHORE - The government says Pakistan is in the midst of an educational emergency with disastrous human and economic consequences, the BBC said on Wednesday. A report prepared by a government commission mentions that half of all Pakistani school children cannot read a sentence. It says funding for schools has been cut from 2.5 percent of GDP in 2005 to just 1.5 percent - less than the national airline gets in subsidies.
It describes the education crisis as a self-inflicted

KARACHI - Emergency centres will be set up beneath 14 flyovers of the city, the City District Government (CDGK) decided in a meeting held at the Civic Centre on Tuesday.
The meeting was presided over by Karachi DCO Muhammad Hussain Syed. EDO Works and Services Rasheed Mughal, EDO Municipal Services Masood Alam, EDO Transport Atiq Baig and other city government officers attended the meeting. The project is being started on the directives of Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan.

Lahore - UK House of Commons Member Lord Nazir Ahmed visited the Emergency Services Academy on Friday and lauded the services of the Rescue 1122 particularly its response time of seven minutes and pledged support in capacity building of Rescue 1122 staff from the UK.
According to details, Nazir along with Councilor Jahangir Akhtar and Councilor Rotherhan Westward visited the Emergency Services Academy where he was briefed on various emergency training being imparted to rescuers.

KARACHI - The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has cancelled the leaves of its officials belonging to essential service departments - including high-ranking officers and staff - so that they can perform their duty on 12th Rabiul Awwal today (Wednesday). Emergency has been declared at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and New Karachi Hospital and all medical and paramedical staff has been directed to attend duties on Wednesday.
Ambulance service 1122 will be available in

LAHORE - 532 Fire Rescuers graduated at Emergency Services Academy (ESA), Shama Chowk, Ferozepur Road, Lahore in the middle of a heavy shower on Monday. The passing out fire fighters have been recruited and trained for remaining 24 Districts of Punjab under special instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.
These remaining Districts include Attock, Bahawalnagar, Bhakkar, Chakwal, Gujrat, Hafizabad, Jehlum, Jhang, Kasur, Khanewal, Khushab, Layyah, Lodharan,

FAISALABAD - Indus River System Authority (IRSA) Chairman Rao Arshad Ali has warned that the capacity of the country's reservoirs has shrunk from 15.79 million acres feet (MAF) to 11.57 million acres feet due to accumulation of mud and silt under the surface of the storage facilities and if the trend continues unabated, Pakistan will have to face drought due to water shortage.
He was speaking as the chief guest at a seminar titled "Water Resources and Post-Floods Era in