Islamabad

Syndicate content

Charred wreckage litters Pakistan plane crash site

The smell of burning filled the air at the scene of Friday's deadly plane crash on the outskirts of Islamabad, where chunks of charred wreckage lay scattered across farmland.

The Bhoja Air Boeing 737

No hope of survivors in Pakistan plane crash: police

air_5.jpg.crop_display.jpg

A passenger airliner crashed near Islamabad on Friday while trying to land during a thunderstorm, officials said, with all 127 people on board believed dead.

The Bhoja Air flight from Karachi burst i

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani expressed deep sorrow

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani expressed deep sorrow over the tragedy and ordered investigation into the incident, Geo News reported.

The Pakistan Civil Avi

Zardari rules out any unilateral withdrawal from Siachen

President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out any unilateral withdrawal of Pakistani soldiers from Siachen, saying troops could be called back from the Himalayan glacier only if India agrees to do the same

Pakistan plane suddenly dived before crashing: Official

The Bhoja Air plane that crashed near the Pakistani capital went into a sudden dive shortly before it disappeared from the radar screen and slammed into the ground, a senior aviation official said on

Drug scam: Pakistan faces medicine shortage

Pakistan's pharmaceutical industry has been hit hard by a Rs.7 billion drug scam in which Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son has been named an accused. It has caused non-availability of controlle

Plane crashes in Pakistan, 120 people onboard

An aircraft which crashed in bad weather near Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Friday was a Pakistani commercial airliner, local television channels have confirmed.

Pakistan to negotiate new terms for reopening NATO supply routes

Pakistan's top civilian and military leadership today decided to forge a ‘work plan’ and negotiate new terms for reopening NATO supply routes as part of efforts for resetting the troubled relationship

Demilitarise Siachen, says Nawaz Sharif

Pakistan and India must immediately pull out their troops from Siachen, said Pakistan's main opposition leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Nawaz Sharif, who heads the Pakistan Muslim Leag

Cut short honeymoon in South Africa, face probe: Gilani to son

Gilani_4.jpg.crop_display_0.jpg.crop_display.jpg

Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday asked his son Ali Musa, who has been linked to alleged irregularities in the import of a large amount of the chemical Ephedrine, to cut short his honeymoon abro

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.