Tag: Shortage

Railways police facing shortage of 1,779 personnel

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways Police are facing a shortage of around 1,779 police personnel of different cadres and the Ministry of Railways was trying to...

Citizens suffer amid ‘artificial’ drugs shortage

--Hospitals and medical stores on verge of running out of lifesaving medicines as pharmaceutical companies’ owners mint money of people’s misery --DRAP spokesperson assures authority...

Locals strive for clean drinking water amid acute shortage in Dera...

Deprived of basic facilities, people across the suburbs of Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district cannot remember when they last had access to clean drinking water. Facing...

DISCOs unable to meet electricity demand amid hot weather

ISLAMABAD: Though electricity generation has increased in the country, hours-long power outages continued in the country amid hot weather as the state-owned power distributing...

Patients suffer due to lack of facilities at LRH

PESHAWAR: Due to lack of facilities caused by a shortage of funds, the patients visiting and admitted to Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), the biggest...

Patients suffer at DHQ Hospital in TT Singh from shortage of...

  TOBA TEK SINGH: Patients and staff at District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Toba Tek Singh have to suffer due to water shortage as Local Government...

Multiple areas in NA 119 face water shortage

LAHORE: Thousands of residents of NA 119 continue to suffer from acute shortage of water that has been going on for many weeks now...

Shortage of train coaches irks passengers

LAHORE: Passengers protested against the low number of train coaches at the Lahore-Narowal route, especially during the coming holidays of Ashura, Muharram-ul-Haram. Several passengers, who travel...

Karachi’s water shortage and the corruption whack a mole

Tanker owners lock horns with Karachi Water and Sewerage Board over reduced piece of the pie after SC shuts down illegal water hydrants The undocumented...

Petrol shortage at Caltex and Shell pumps in Punjab and Sindh

  The petrol pumps have started creating artificial shortage of petrol and diesel in Punjab and other parts of the country following a summary of...

Hepatitis control programme marred by shortage of injections

Lives of over 7,000 patients at stake The hepatitis centres operating under Sindh’s Hepatitis Prevention and Control Program (HPCP) continue facing shortage of injections across...

Short on petrol too!

With Pakistan State Oil (PSO) whining for money and the government struggling with setting the ever-stagnant circular debt in motion, the countrymen’s quantum of agitation is rising with each passing day as they line up at arid petrol stations across the country with their dried up vehicles in search for their daily dose of ‘liquid gold’.

Capital’s traders suffer Rs 3b losses, decry shortage, inflation

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI STAFF REPORT   The business community of Rawalpindi and Islamabad has said that it has suffered losses to the tune of Rs 3 billion as a...

Gas shortage irks domestic users across the country

Gas crisis has worsened across the country in general particularly in Punjab as the pressure is almost zero and women are unable to cook...

Furtive fuel station owners creating artificial fuel shortages to make a...

In response to rumors of an increase in petroleum prices, several petrol pump owners on Saturday created an artificial shortage of petrol in city...

Mill owners smuggling flour following price hike

Flour mills owners have started smuggling of flour following increase in the wheat prices as announced by the government. The government had increased the price...

No Water for Airport Society

Residents in the area of Airport Housing Society are facing severe water shortages .The authorities have failed to meet the increasing demand of water,...