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(Reuters) - Cathay Pacific Airways has cancelled all flights to the Pakistani city of Karachi from Bangkok following a Taliban raid on the country's busiest airport this week, as top Pakistani officials debated how to tackle the escalating violence. International flights in and out of Karachi have been suspended twice...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that work has already started on a plan to generate 900MW electricity to overcome energy crisis in the province. Talking to new person, he said we intend to generate 2000 MW electricity through competitive bids to be published in the newspapers...

#KarachiAirportAttack continues on after 2 hours,  It has been confirmed that  4 Planes of PIA, Air Blue & a other int'l airlines have been damaged in the attack on Karachi  Airport. The Attacker continue gun battle with security forces at #Karachi airport after even after 2 hours of the attack. The Chief Minister of Sindh Qaim...

KARACHI: More than a dozen militants equipped with heavy weapons and grenades attacked Karachi airport on Sunday night, killing at least four security personnel.  NEWS UPDATED :  https://www.incpak.com/world/karachi-airport-attack-updates/ The attack took place at terminal 1. According to reports reaching here, miscreants entered from old terminal and started indiscriminate firing followed...

KARACHI: The financial capital of Pakistan descended into panic and fear again after aerial firing triggered closure of commercial activities in various areas.Hours after life returned to the metropolis today, aerial firing was reported in Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, Liaqatabad, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Golimar, Garden, Solder Bazaar, Shahfaisal, Landhi, Korangi and...

Federal Budget 2014-15 ISLAMABAD, June 3  Following are highlights of the Federal Budget 2014-15 presented by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in the National Assembly here on Tuesday evening: •    Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves likely to be US 15 billion by July this year. •    Foreign exchange reserves have now increased to US...

Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government is all set to present its second budget before the parliament for the fiscal year 2014-15 with an outlay of around Rs.3.8 trillion Tuesday. While launching the Economic Survey of Pakistan on Monday, the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said against last year’s growth of...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways is planning to add 100 more locomotives for freight trains by the end of next financial year. "We will be bring hundred more engines on trace during next financial year which would help increase the frequency of rail traffic" an official in the Ministry of Railways told...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday has taken a strong notice of a brutal incident in Lahore the other day in which a 25-year-old pregnant woman was beaten to death with bricks by her family for marrying without their consent.“Such a brutal murder in the presence of police is...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif while reiterating that country’s nuclear assets are in safe hands said Wednesday nuclear technology will be used for power generation and social uplift. In a message to the nation on the occasion of 16th Youm e Takbeer which marks May 28, 1998 when Pakistan carried...

The prime minister of Pakistan has accepted an invitation from Narendra Modi, the incoming Indian prime minister, to attend his inauguration on Monday in Delhi, raising hopes of a thaw in relations between the two south Asian nations. Nawaz Sharif, who won power in Pakistan last year for a third time, will also...

Pakistan has become the first foreign country to use China-based GPS system made by BeiDou, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. BeiDou, or Compass, has also set up a network in Pakistan. While speaking to the annual China Satellite navigation Conference in Nanjing, Chief Scientist of UniStrong Shen Jun has said...