Tag: Highway

No road lights on Islamabad Highway

Due to the slackness of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), Islamabad Highway has been without road lights from Koral Chowk to GT Road for...

The boulevard of broken promises

Auditor General of Pakistan has revealed that National Highway Authority (NHA) has suffered a loss of Rs 328.208 million due to deposit of revenue...

NHA awards contracts in violation of rules

The National Highway Authority (NHA), violating the public procurement rules, awarded contracts amounting to Rs 674.415 million to various contractors, including FWO, without open...

Police kill four suspected dacoits in ‘encounter’

Jamshoro police gunned down four suspected dacoits during an exchange of fire on Indus Highway near the Toll Plaza on Sunday. DSP Jamshoro Abdul...

Four robbers killed in police encounter

Four robbers were killed and two police personnel got injured in a police encounter on Super Highway. According to media reports, the incident occurred...

‘All National Highway schemes to be completed during 2012-13’

Federal Minister for Communications Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan has said that during the coming financial year, ongoing national highway schemes in all the provinces...

NH&MP signs MoUs on road safety

The National Highways and Motorway Police extended its partnership to ATV, an electronic media channel, and Ufone, stepping ahead towards achievement of its mission...

Sindh CM takes notice of National Highway incident

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Shah on Friday took notice of the firing on bus incident which claimed seven lives and several injured near...

Delay in Kashmir Highway construction poses threats to commuters

The Capital Development Authority (CDA) chairman seems least interested in ensuring the timely completion of the Kashmir Highway project, which has almost come to...

Cities beyond the law

Nothing clarifies your thoughts on the role of government quite so much as visiting a place that isn’t governed. I once visited such a place...

Troubled plane lands on highway near Karachi

A Pakistani plane made an emergency landing on a busy highway outside Karachi on Thursday after developing an engine fault, an aviation official said....

President directs early super highway completion

President Asif Ali Zardari directed the authorities to complete the up-gradation project of Karachi-Hyderabad Super Highway (M-9) into a motorway in fifteen months from...

CDGK to complete Mehran Highway in six months

he construction of the Mehran Highway would be completed within six months, said the City District Government Karachi (CDGK)’s authorities on Monday. Development work on...

Kashmir Highway contractor halts work

Cash-strapped Capital Development Authority (CDA) is now facing another blow due to its poor financial condition as the construction work on Kashmir Highway has...

‘12 highway robbers killed, 84 held this year’

Twelve highway robbers were killed and 84 arrested by police in various parts of the Sindh this year, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Wajid...

A highway through a building

Gate Tower Building is a 16-storey office building in, Osaka, Japan. And what makes it notable is the highway that passes through the...

Pak, Tajik ministers discuss construction of highway

Tajik Transport Minister Nizom Hakimov has met Pakistani Minister of Communications Arbab Alamgir Khan in the Tajik capital on Monday. Issues pertaining to cooperation...