Pakistan Power Outage: As the Country suffers major power outage, Twitter lights up with memesPakistanis are dealing with the power outage in the best way they know how: through memes and rib-tickling content on the micro-blogging we...
23 Jan, 2023, 05.45 PM IST
Pakistan suffers major power outage after grid failure"According to initial information, at about 7:34 AM (local time) today, the National Grid experienced a loss of frequency, that caused a ma...
23 Jan, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Pakistan struggling to stop biggest lake from bursting its banksFloods in Pakistan have affected some 33 million people and killed at least 1,314 persons, including 458 children, Pakistan's National Disa...
06 Sep, 2022, 08.57 PM IST
Pakistanis pray in the dark as power outages of up to 12 hours hit country during Ramadan: ReportsAccording to The News International, urban centres such as Karachi, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Faisalabad, and Sialkot have been severe...
22 Apr, 2022, 06.29 PM IST
Pakistan's 'missile' fails to reach target, crashes in SindhAccording to information gathered from social media, the object was a missile, fired by Pakistan from its test range at Sindh. The test was...
18 Mar, 2022, 10.38 AM IST
Conversion shadow on Pakistan PM Imran Khan's Sikh outreach planSikh anguish over the incident was stoked by the silence of Pakistan-based religious leader Gopal Chawla and Sikh for Justice leader Pannu,...
02 Sep, 2019, 09.07 PM IST
Pakistan seals Jamaat-ud-Dawa headquarters, detains more than 120 suspected militants"Under the National Action Plan (NAP), the government has taken complete control of the banned JuD and FIF headquarters in Lahore and Murid...
07 Mar, 2019, 10.22 PM IST
Pakistan plans curriculum for Friday sermons to counter extremismUnder the new format the Friday sermons would educate people about practical life in the light of the Quran and the Hadith - the words or a...
19 Sep, 2017, 02.04 PM IST
Pakistan university professor, his niece arrested for IS linksNaureen Laghari, 20, who is said to have visited Syria in February to join Islamic State, said she was to be used as a suicide bomber to at...
23 May, 2017, 05.06 PM IST
100 dead in ISIS suicide attack on Sufi shrine in PakistanThe blast took place during Dhamal - a Sufi ritual - when hundreds of devotees were present inside the premises of the vast mausoleum of th...
17 Feb, 2017, 04.05 PM IST
Pakistan plans its first mega nuclear power plantEnergy-starved Pakistan will set up a mega nuclear power plant with power generation capacity of 2,000 megawatts, the first in the country'...
26 Jan, 2016, 06.33 PM IST
Pakistan goes dark after nationwide power breakdownThe breakdown hit amid rumours that the country's power crisis would be exacerbated as a result of acute shortage of furnace oil.
26 Jan, 2015, 10.40 AM IST
Karachi city, parts of Sindh in darkness due to power failure"The breakdown was caused by a technical fault in one of the high voltage transmission lines supplying electricity to Karachi from the nati...
21 Dec, 2014, 02.49 PM IST
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directs authorities to induct 2400 MW to system by FebruarySharif chaired a joint ministerial meeting of the energy sector held at the PM's House yesterday to review the power supply situation in th...
25 Oct, 2014, 02.21 PM IST
Taliban's Sindh unit attacked Karachi dockyard, says reportPakistani Taliban's Sindh unit was involved in foiled terror attack at a Naval dockyard in Karachi, the country's financial capital.
15 Sep, 2014, 12.25 PM IST
Pakistan, US sign $72 million deal to upgrade Mangla damThey signed a $72 million agreement to refurbish and upgrade the Mangla dam located in the Mirpur district of Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir (P...
07 Mar, 2014, 09.59 PM IST
Sanctions would trigger if Iran-Pak gas pipeline goes ahead: USThe US has warned Pakistan that if it goes ahead with the construction of a gas pipeline with Iran, sanctions would be triggered.
12 Mar, 2013, 03.06 AM IST