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PM Shehbaz Sharif orders inquiry into power outage in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into the power outage in Pakistan that took place at around 7:34 am on Monday and left many cities including Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Islamabad without electricity, Geo TV reported.
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Pak: Pashtun activists arrested for demanding release of Ali Wazir
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi Police on Sunday booked several leaders and workers of the Pashtun Tahfuzz Movement (PTM) in an abetting mutiny case after they held a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club demanding the release of MNA Ali Wazir, the Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Girl shot dead by father 'over honour'
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
During the incident, Head Constable Imran Zaman, 40, and another person, 20-year-old Wajid Kaleem, were also injured. Both the injured were then taken to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi along with the girl's body, the SSP said.
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Major power outage in Pakistan; Lahore, Islamabad among cities without ele
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pakistan's Ministry of Energy in a statement said that the frequency of the national grid went down at 7:34 am which caused a "widespread breakdown" in the power system. It further said that the restoration of grid stations has been started from Warsak.
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Major electricity breakdown across Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"There are reports of multiple outages from different parts of the city. We are investigating the issue and will keep this space posted," said Imran Rana, Spokesperson, K-Electric in a Twitter post.
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Karachi's Safe City project yet to start after 12 years of delay
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Safe citiy project in Karachi Pakistan, has not been able to start even after 12 years of delay. And this is raising security concerns across the city.
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Former Army Chief Bajwa's behaviour changed after extension in 2019: Imran
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"General Bajwa changed after the extension and compromised with the Sharif. He decided, at that time, to give them the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)," former Pakistan's PM Imran Khan said in an interview
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Karachi police lodges FIR against attack on Ahmadiyya Centre
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
With mob attacks and killings becoming a regular affair against the Ahmadiyya community, Pakistan has become a country where the people of this community are subjected to extensive persecution.
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Pakistan textile firm owners threaten protest over delay in clearance of i
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The report quoted All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Hamid Zaman as saying that the textile industry will be forced to protest if the government doesn't clear the imported cotton
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Pak's Karachi submerged in 2022 despite millions pumped by World Bank: Rep
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Despite pouring millions of dollars into Pakistan, the country's biggest city, Karachi was submerged during the extreme flooding last year due to decades of neglect by the authorities to the Karachi's sewage and waste disposal systems that created the perfect recipe for flooding in the city,
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Only 3 per cent of World Bank's USD 100 million funding used to flood-proo
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Less than three per cent of the World Bank's budget, which it gave as loans to the local Sindh government, has been spent, after three years.
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Pakistan: Protests erupt in Karachi over recounting of votes in local poll
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The ECP took over 36 hours to announce the results of Karachi's 236 union committees, as the opposition accused the provincial government of "rigging and managing things".
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