Tag: islamabad
One year on Postal reforms-agenda exists merely on paper
ISLAMABAD: Postal reforms-agenda looks good only on paper as no real progress has been seen on the ground despite the passage of one year, Pakistan Today...
Delhi denies visas to Pakistanis while Islamabad frees 145 Indian fishermen
ISLAMABAD: India rejected issuing visas to Pakistani pilgrims who were to visit Delhi to participate in the Urs celebrations of a revered Sufi saint while Islamabad...
Islamabad refused to give access to foreign couple’s abductor: US media
ISLAMABAD: Detailing one of the causes of the ‘rift’ between Pakistan and US, a report in the New York Times claims that relations between...
CDA to allot over 1,000 acres to Army for new GHQ,...
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) will allot over 1,000 acres of land to the Pakistan Army for the construction of General head quarters...
Commercial buildings in capital functioning without completion certificates
ISLAMABAD: Capital’s foremost civic agency has failed to implement building by-laws in the federal capital. As many as 98 percent commercial buildings are functioning without...
Wife, mother meet convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan
Jadhav says he is thankful to Pakistan
FO says India's silence on the matter is telling
'Pakistan permitted Indian spy to meet his...
Plans to regularise illegal construction on Grand Hyatt land underway
ISLAMABAD: A high-level committee, headed by Attorney General Ashatar Ausaf Ali, is considering various options to regularise the project or pay compensation to the...
IHC hands couple possession of grabbed land after 35 years: report
ISLAMABAD: After 35 years of court struggle, an Islamabad-based couple finally got the possession of a plot they had bought in the federal capital.
The Islamabad...
Islamabad, Delhi race to tap water in disputed Kashmir
MUZAFFARABAD: Several hundred metres underground, thousands of labourers grind away day and night on a mammoth hydroelectric project in contested Kashmir, where India and...
Fire at PTV offices doused in Peshawar
PESHAWAR: The fire, which engulfed at the offices of the state TV in Peshawar early Friday, has been doused, firefighting officials said. The blaze...
Halal Food Authority remains on papers for two years
ISLAMABAD: While the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) is in hot water for allegedly making appointments of high officials in violation of rules,...
‘Don’t drag us into your electoral battle’, Pakistan rubbishes Modi’s allegations
NEW DELHI: A day after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Congress of colluding with Pakistan to defeat the BJP in the Gujarat...
Protests continue, as trees fall to development in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: As the capital has expanded, with the construction of ever more homes and businesses and with roads being widened to accommodate growing traffic, the...
KP, FATA merger: JI marches towards Islamabad
PESHAWAR: Thousands of people from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and workers of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) are marching towards parliament in Islamabad in order to...
Married couple among three killed in goat feud in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Three people were killed in a firing incident near secretariat’s police station in Islamabad on Sunday.
According to the police, an exchange of fire...
Coke Food Festival struggling to draw crowds in Islamabad
By Minahil Shahab/Mohammad Sohaib
ISLAMABAD: After being an outright success in Lahore, Coke Food Festival in Islamabad struggled to draw crowds on second consecutive day...
In pictures: Coke Food Festival Islamabad
Islamabad: Two food festival in the space of a month has given the residents of twin cities plenty to look out for in an otherwise...
