Tag: Misery

Heavy rainfall adds to people’s misery in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Low lying areas of Malakand, Batkhela, Dargai, Lower Dir were inundated as a flood-like situation was created in water channels after heavy rainfall...

Khawaja, Burns tons as Aussies maintain misery for Windies

  Usman Khawaja and Joe Burns hammered centuries as Australia again put the West Indies to the sword on the opening day of the second...

UK apex court refuses to end detained Pakistani’s misery

Human rights campaigners have failed to persuade Britain’s highest court to come to the aid of a 30-year-old Pakistani held without trial for more...

More Open misery for McIlroy

For the second year in a row, Rory McIlroy limped away from the British Open with his head bent low after he failed to...

CM ends 25-year-old’s misery

On the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, a team of surgeons headed by Prof Tariq Salahuddin has successfully removed Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM)...

Retired army official’s heroics bring him agonising misery

The social media has been flooded with SOS calls for the release of 14-year-old Madina Anwar, who is in the custody of abductors since...

Winter brings more misery to millions of flood victims

More than two months after the August floods hit the southern Pakistan, millions of affected people are still at great risk as the winter...

The misery of railway passengers

Most of the passengers are seen sitting on the cemented floor of the platform as the few benches that are there, are already occupied....

Rains continue to pour misery, 21 more killed

Torrential rain wreaked havoc in Quetta, killing four children and damaging several houses, officials said on Wednesday, while another 17 perished in heavy rain...

Captain Cook piles misery on India

Captain Alastair Cook led from the front as England took a 1-0 lead in the one-day series with a seven wicket win over India...

Floods cause misery in Bangladesh

Floods in southwest Bangladesh have inundated vast swathes of farmland, affecting nearly a million people, many of whom are stranded on embankments with no...

Indian workers in Afghanistan: a tale of misery

Thousands of Indian nationals are being employed as menial workers to serve the American soldiers living within the base camps in Afghanistan through fly-by-night...

Misery follows rain-hit families to relief camps

As miseries pile on rain-affected families in six districts of Sindh, civil society organisations on Saturday decried the government’s apathetic attitude towards the provision...

More misery for India as England eye whitewash

Hapless India slumped to 103 for five at stumps in their first innings on the third day of the fourth Test at The Oval...

Black coats pile on broken households’ misery

Strikes by lawyers on every alternate day, appearance of junior and untrained lawyers in court to plead cases and frequent transfer of judges has...

Power cuts increase misery of heat-stricken citizens

It seems that there is no end to the power crisis as the electricity shortfall stood at 5,789 MW on Friday which continued to...

KESC’s ‘Misery Hours’ increased to 8 hours

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has increased load shedding to up to eight hours due to, what the company claims, shortage of gas for running its electricity generating plants, sources have informed Pakistan Today. Moreover, the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) would be receiving 60 percent less gas from one of its major gas fields, causing the KESC to face further shortage of gas and, consequently, multiplying the sufferings of the people of Karachi.
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