Tag: Villages
CM urges for electrifying 1,179 villages
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the provincial government had given Rs5.86 billion to three power companies, Hesco,...
Nigeria forces killed 35 people in attacks on villages: Amnesty
ABUJA: Nigerian Air Force killed at least 35 people in attacks on villages in the northeastern state of Adamawa in December, Amnesty International said...
IDF expands search for rabbi’s killers West Bank
NABLUS: Israeli forces set up roadblocks and deployed around a major Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank Nablus on Wednesday in a manhunt for...
Monsoon floods swamp northeast Indian villages, 21 dead
Monsoon floods have inundated hundreds of villages across the northeast Indian state of Assam, killing at least 21 people in the last four days...
IS in Syria has abducted 220 from Christian villages this week
Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three day offensive, a monitor...
UN observers visit Indian shelling hit Sialkot villages
United Nations (UN) peace-keeping mission observers visited the Indian shelling-hit Sialkot border villages in Zafarwal and Shakargarh sectors of Sialkot Working Boundary on Friday.
According...
Five dead as flood hits hundreds of villages in Sindh
At least five people were killed in electrocution and other incidents as swelling water of Indus River wreaked havoc in Katcha area of district...
Chenab, Ravi continue flowing in high flood
The Chenab River at Punjnad and Ravi River at Sidhnai continued flowing in high flood on Monday, but the level was gradually receding, reports...
500 villages to be illuminated with solar energy
More than 500 villages will be given electricity via solar energy, Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) Director General Khalid Islam said on...
Floodwater submerges dozens of villages in Jafardabad, Kandhkot
Dozens of villagers were inundated after floodwater entered Jacobabad and Kandhkot from Balochistan on Saturday.
The floodwater entered Jafarabad from areas of Lehri and...
Over 500 villages submerged in Naseerabad
A huge torrent of floodwater ravaged its way through Chhatar and Lehri into Rabi area of district Naseerabad early Tuesday inundating over 500 villages.
Several...
4 die in Qila Saifullah as 100 villages flooded in Layyah
Four members of a family drowned in Qila Saifullah while at least a dozen villages were flooded in Layyah district after heavy rainfall on...
River Indus flooding: 10 villages, cultivated lands effected
Flood in River Indus inundated 10 villages and damaged crops cultivated at hundreds of acres of land here on Saturday.
According to details, high level...
Flooding inundates 50 villages in Dadu
At least fifty villages were submerged under water in Dadu district as water flow in Gaaj river increased on Wednesday forcing the residents to...
Security enhanced in villages of Islamabad
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration in collaboration with the Islamabad police have decided to beef up security measures in villages surrounding Margallah Hills,...
CM orders early regularisation of demolished villages
The process of regularising villages, suspended following some complaints, will be restarted soon, Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Friday.
He was presiding over...
Villages inundated in Sutlej floods
Dozens of villages in Kasur and Bahawalnagar villages were inundated as the water level in the River Sutlej increased on Sunday. Thousands were left...