Tag: Transport

According to the ADP report, in the Federal Budget of 2011-12 only two projects have been approved until now, while five other schemes...

The situation of petrol improved in most cities of the province on Saturday after seven consecutive days of shortage as fuel in huge quantity...

The Lahore Transport Company has delayed about 2000 buses that were expected to come during the whole year because of a rise in GST...

Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has come up with a scheme to provide ‘Student Discount Card’ for traveling through public transport in the city, Pakistan...

Federal government officials in grade 20 and above would be offered transport monetisation packages for giving up their chauffeur driven cars in the range...

An accountability court indicted Transport Department officials for irregularities in the Lahore Mass Transit System (LMTS) project on Thursday. The court framed charges against...

Advisor to Chief Minister and Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan has said that citizens of more than 65 years of age...

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday summoned the secretaries of Transport Department and Regional Transport Authority and the transporters’ representatives among other respondents,...

After years of deliberations on the idea of utilising the Indus River’s waterways for freight forwarding, high fuel costs have forced the government to...

Despite being equipped with separate ladies’ compartments, travelling on public transport buses has become a nightmare for women due to overloading and harassment issues,...

LAHORE - Adviser to the Punjab chief minister (CM) and Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan said that a comprehensive plan of action had been devised to execute the new transport system in the city. Presiding over a meeting at the CM's Secretariat on Thursday, Khawaja said that state of the art infrastructure for transport would be provided under which bus terminals and depots were being set up in order to provide standardized and affordable transport

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)'s Rabita Committee has criticised the two-rupee increase in public transport fares, terming it as a gross injustice to the people of the city.
According to the committee, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority had increased Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) prices a few days ago; but the increase has not been withdrawn despite government's assurances. The increase in POL prices and the consequent increase by the public transporters in the

KARACHI - All public transport vehicles including mini buses and large passenger buses will be converted to pollution free and economical fuel compressed natural gas (CNG).
This was stated by Sindh Minister for Transport Akhtar Husain Jadoon, while speaking at the seventh CNG Conference and Exhibition CONEX 2011 at a local hotel. The conference was organised by the national forum for environment and health. The All Pakistan CNG Association Minister said that President Asif Ali

KARACHI - A transport project worth $1 billion meant to benefit of the citizens of Karachi is likely to be scrapped by dint of indifferent attitude of the Sindh government as it has shown no interest in initiating the bidding process for inviting investment needed to operate buses in the province, sources have informed Pakistan Today. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the provincial government and the International Investment Consortium (IIC) of Malaysia on

LAHORE - Inter-city transporters have increased fares by 10 percent while transporters are all set for a wheel jam strike if the federal government does not reverse the increase in fuel prices.
Talking to Pakistan Today, transporters said that the increase in fuel prices is a 'drone attack' by the federal government against the public. They said that they would announce a wheel jam strike in Punjab if the prices are not reversed. Urban Bus Owners Association Punjab Chairman

KARACHI - A former employee of the Karachi Public Transport Society (KPTS) has landed the post of the society's administrator, replacing the provincial transport minister's close aide, on recommendation of the Sindh chief minister, it has been reliably learnt.
Earlier, ignoring the Sindh High Court (SHC) order, Sindh Transport Minister Akhtar Jadoon had appointed his close friend Sarwar Khan as the KPTS administrator by replacing the senior-most KPTS employee Shamsuddin Abro.

LAHORE - National Highway and Motorway Police (NH&MP) and Niazi Transport Company (pvt) Limited (NTC) are wrestling over ownership of about 20 kanals near Motorway's Babu Sabu Interchange, Pakistan Today learnt on Monday. NH&MP authorities claim that the National Highway Authority (NHA) had allotted 51 kanal piece of land to the NH&MP for the construction of its camp office adjacent to Babu Sabu Interchange at the Motorway.
NH&MP officials claim that they have already begun civil