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Indian security forces defused a powerful bomb found on a train carrying about 1,000 passengers in the northeastern state of Assam on Friday, a...

As many as three hundred TEVTA teachers have been trained as master trainers by foreign experts and resource persons of City & Guilds International...

A high level delegation from Rasheed Bank, the leading Iraqi bank led by its chairman Khadim M Nashoor, visited the head office of MCB...

At least 22 people died in a train accident in India , a private television reported on Tuesday. As per details, the train was...

The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) will decided about whether it will run a mono train, a rapid bus or a light train after...

More than 700 people were injured, 70 of them seriously, when two South African commuter trains collided in the Soweto township outside Johannesburg, officials...

At least three people were crushed to death when their speedy car hit the Peshawar-bound Quetta Express train at the Attawa Railway Crossing. Reportedly, 30-year-old...

Railway passengers, especially children and women, have been facing problems over the last four weeks due to hours-long delay in train departures. Several passengers...

The US Department of Justice and its embassy’s Office of Narcotics Affairs Friday completed a week-long workshop on ‘Case Preparation and Trial Skills’ for...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Boxing Federation will send pugilists for training to England and other countries ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, officials announced Tuesday.
PBF President Doda Khan Bhutto said that efforts were afoot for specialised training for the Pakistan boxers before major international championships. He was addressing a function, hosted in his honour by the Sports Journalists Association of Sindh (SJAS), on Tuesday at the Karachi Press Club. Secretary PBF Akram

ISLAMABAD - Gul cargo train, traversing 6500 kilometers from Islamabad, Tehran to Istanbul, will become a symbol of strength in the Pak-Turk ties in the coming years. The project got a final shape in the recent four day official visit of President Asif Ali Zardari to Ankara, the Turkish capital, from April 11-14.
With the strong encouragement of leaders of the two countries, Turkish Union of Chambers (TOBB) has announced to immediately start a company to run the project. The

LAHORE - The Pakistan Railways administration has said that the Gul Express, ECO container train, between Pakistan and Turkey via Iran, has become a permanent feature as it promotes regional and international trade links.
While contradicting a news item published in a local paper, PR Director Public Relations Mohsin Yousuf, in a press statement on Saturday, said the train had become a monthly service since August 2010 and runs on first Thursday of each month between Pakistan and

ISLAMABAD - The government has directed Pakistan Railways (PR) to conduct a proper feasibility study and to evolve a concrete marketing plan, so that benefits from the monthly Pakistan Turkey freight train service could be acquired.
The direction was given at a meeting, chaired by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, on the operation of Pakistan-Turkey freight train. Existing transport agreements of Pakistan with Iran and Turkey, under bilateral or international arrangements,

MIRPURKHAS - A Hyderabad-bound passenger train on late Monday night escaped a major incident because of the engine's brakes failure at the Mirpurkhas Railway Station. A 200 feet stretch of the track was also damaged in the incident. However, the bogies were not affected and all the passengers remained unhurt. Soon after the incident, Pakistan Railways officials reached the spot and started repairing the damaged track.
The engine driver, Qamruddin, told to Pakistan Today that

KARACHI - The proposed Gul Train between Islamabad and Turkey, named after the Turkish president, moved a step forward as a Turkish delegation led by Professor Dr Guven Sak, Head of Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey called on President Asif Ali Zardari and said that the pre-feasibility study of the project would be completed ahead of President Zardari's forthcoming visit to Turkey in April. Turkish Ambassador in Islamabad Mustafa Babur Hizlan was also present in the

KASUR - People are suffering because of suspension of train service in Kasur. As per details, Pakistan Railways administration had suspended the services of four trains namely 321up, 322 down, 257 up and 258 down due to non availability of diesel. Many passengers had been waiting for their desired trains for many hours because they were not informed about the suspension of the service. This step would severely affect the passengers from those areas which lie around the railway track

LAHORE - Pakistan Railways has launched a four-compartment marriage car facility, specially designed for marriage parties wanting to use Pakistan Railways services. Pakistan Railways Public Relations Director Mohsin Yousuf while briefing media here at Lahore Railway Station on Wednesday said that thes new traveling facility includes a 'mehndi hall', a dining room with a fridge, a microwave and a separate compartment for the bride and groom.
The train can carry 27 individuals with