Work stopped on Tarbela dam expansion after rockfall floods tunnel and powerhouse
ISLAMABAD: Work on Pakistan’s Tarbela Dam fifth extension was suspended indefinitely on Monday after a section of weak rock collapsed during tunnel excavation and water flooded a tunnel and the unfinished powerhouse, the second flooding at the 1,530MW project in 15 months.
Opposition alliance plans movement against government, hopes Fazlur Rehman will lead it
ISLAMABAD: Allies of Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have said they hope his old adversary, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, will help lead a movement against the government.
Pakistan demands unconditional end to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has demanded that Yemen’s Houthi rebels “immediately and unconditionally” cease all attacks on Saudi Arabia, after a missile strike on Riyadh damaged a skyscraper belonging to the oil giant Aramco.
BITES
- Mobile broadband services restored
- LPG prices rise by 29.2pc for February
- Cabinet swells to 75 members
- Govt allows TCP to import wheat via all ports
- World Bank approves $200 million in loan for Punjab’s farm development project
- PM Sharif’s party decides to get tough on hecklers
- Apex court overturns PHC ban on poultry exports
- Shahbaz Gill declined bail
- IHC disposes of PTI employees petition against FIA notices
- Rupee plumbs new lows against dollar
- Punjab gets new policy chief
- Loans under Mera Ghar scheme to continue
- Senior army official shot dead in Balochistan rescue operation
- Bani Gala Firing: Man shot, wounded by PTI leader’s gunman
- Turkish commander calls on CJCSC
- Inquiry commission to probe reasons of energy crisis
- ANP set to fly Sharif’s coop
- Member Communist Party of China calls on COAS
- CHE to be renamed, HQ shifted to Karachi
- Pakistan to import high-quality Afghan coal in rupees
- IHC chucks plea to interfere with legislation
- Saudi Arabia confers King Abdulaziz medal on General Bajwa
- Interior Minister no-show at drugs case hearing
- Pakistan hopes early, successful visit by FATF team
- Pakistan commiserates with Afghanistan over quake, flood destruction
Pakistan drops floor price in second try to sell surplus sugar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s state-run grain trader has reopened bidding for about 108,000 metric tons of surplus imported sugar, scrapping the minimum price that drew no offers the first time.
Zahoor’s unbeaten century sinks India in Under-19 Asia Cup thriller
LAHORE: Hamza Zahoor made an unbeaten 100 from number seven to bring Pakistan Under-19 back from 61 for five and past India by three wickets in the ACC Men’s Under-19 Asia Cup in Muscat on Sunday.