Tag: Truck

A woman died and three people were injured when a truck ran over a donkey cart in the Shafiqabad police precincts on Saturday. Abudul...

A speeding truck in western India ran over and killed 18 Muslim pilgrims who were sleeping on a roadside early on Thursday morning, police...

Truck Art in Pakistan is more or less an underrated art form. On one hand, it is very popular among a certain circle, such...

At least seven people were killed and 39 injured in a suicide attack on a police station on Peshawar’s University Road on Wednesday. Police...

At least 16 people were killed in northwest Pakistan on Saturday after a bomb attack claimed by a militant group hit a truck carrying...

TOKYO - Six children were killed on their way to school Monday morning after they were hit by a crane truck that veered from its lane on a clear straight road and crashed into a building, police said. The driver Masato Shibata, 26, was arrested on the spot on a street in Kanuma city in Tochigi prefecture north of Tokyo, a police spokesman said. The six children, aged nine to eleven, were pronounced dead at the scene by an emergency physician or at hospital, said the police

LONDON - Bringing the cheerful and colourful face of Pakistan to the forefront, a fascinating exhibition of world famous truck art of Pakistan has been launched at the Stockwood Discovery Centre in Luton.
The launch event took place in the presence of Minister Political Pakistan High Commission Nafees Zakaria, Mayor of Luton Tom Shaw, Lord Qurban Hussain, Chairman Board of Trustees Luton Culture, Nick Gibson, Director for museums for Luton Culture Karen Perkins and a large number

LAHORE - Four men of a family died while another sustained critical injuries when a truck crashed into trees due to a broken tyre-rod on Bedian Road in the Kahna Police precincts on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Shamoon Masih, Niamat Masih, Haneef Masih and Nadeem Masih while the injured was identified as Sharafat Masih. The victims were residents of Manawala village.

Lahore - A boy was crushed by a City District Government Lahore (CDGL) truck in the Kot Lakhpat Police Station precincts on Friday.
According to details, Naveed, 7, son of Abdul Qadir and a resident of the Ghulam Bhatti Colony was crossing the road when a speeding CDGL truck ran over him resulting in his instant death. The truck driver was arrested by police and an FIR lodged against him while the truck was also taken into custody.
Separately, a man was critically injured by

KARACHI - Cumulative trucks production has undergone a decline of 12.20 percent, while their sales have dwindled 16 percent in the first seven months of the financial year 2010-11.
Data released by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA) has revealed that sales of Hino fell 19 percent, while sales of Nissan and Isuzu registered a decline of nine percent and 31 percent respectively in the said period. Sales of Master exhibited a rising trend, growing at 18

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on SAFRON was told on Thursday that the Pakistan Army was "illegally" receiving a sum of Rs 35,000 per container from NATO to clear containers at the Torkham border. Expressing anger, the committee has summoned the FC IG in this connection. The NA body's meeting was chaired by Sajid Hussain. FATA Additional Secretary Habib Ullah told the committee that the regular transportation of NATO containers was badly damaging the road

LAHORE: "Who can you trust if a traffic warden turns out to be a swindler, making good with your valuables including cash and mobile phone while charging you over traffic rules violation," said a truck driver Jahanzaib while talking to Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
HALT! TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Jahanzaib, a driver who works with Cargo United Goods and drives their truck (JU-7577) from Lahore to Karachi, said that late on Tuesday night he entered Lahore and was heading to wards his

QUETTA: A truck carrying 40 metric tonnes of blister copper extracted in the Saindak Copper-Gold Project was stolen last week in the coastal district of Lasbela, Pakistan Today learned on Thursday.
According to sources, the vehicle was part of a convoy of about 32 trucks, all carrying blister copper - mixture of Copper and Gold - from Saindak to Karachi under the heavy escort of Balochistan Frontier Corps and Pakistan Customs.
They said that the truck went missing somewhere

KARACHI: Investigators probing the blast at the Crime Investigation Department (CID) Civil Lines office have found no evidence about the attackers, except about the driver of the explosives-laden truck, and therefore, they are of the view that all other assailants managed to escape after the attack.
Sources told Pakistan Today on Saturday that of the 17 people killed in the blast, there was only one mutilated and unidentified body, and investigators believed it was the body of

PESHAWAR: Taliban armed with assault rifles fired at two NATO tankers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, injuring three people, police and local officials said.
"Around eight militants in two cars intercepted two oil tankers near the town of Pabbi on the GT Road and fired at them with Kalashnikovs," local police official Hayat Khan told AFP.
"Two drivers and a helper were injured and taken to hospital in Peshawar. Their condition is stable now," Khan said, adding that oil