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The Government of Pakistan is keen to launch wind farm projects to meet national energy requirement through renewable energy technologies. A spokesman of Alternative Energy Development Board said wind energy is cost effective and can become a substitute to thermal power generation with investments from private sector. He said the...

Lahore: An explosion occurred at an eatery situated in Lahore's old Anarkali area a while back, killing at least three persons and injuring more than a dozen others.Nearby buildings and parked vehicles were damaged as a result of the blast, DCO Lahore, said - Nasim Sadiq, around  37 victims were shifted...

The provincial forest department set a new world record on Saturday by planting 750,000 mangrove saplings at Kharo Chan, Thatta, in a little over 12 hours. This is the highest number of saplings planted within a day. To achieve the feat, 300 volunteers toiled from dawn till the time the...

Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Qaim Ali Shah presented the budget in Sindh Assembly. In his budget speech, the CM said the budget making is always a daunting task especially when the global economy is suffering from years of recession and uncertainty, and when there are serious resource constraints.But we,...

Honda has the big name in the Car Brands and it better knows that how to fool loyal customers, the company did this only because of consistent deal of maintaining the standard of its brand. It is providing luxurious cars with best quality and specification to the Pakistani customers.That’s why it is continuously going...

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced the federal government's budget for 2013-14 in the National Assembly with a record outlay of Rs3.5 trillion. It reflected a difficult and ambitious fiscal adjustment of about Rs580 billion — 2.5 per cent of the GDP (gross domestic product) — by reducing subsidies and introducing...

Congratulations to Mountaineer Samina Baig & her brother Mirza Ali to scale Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 metres. Samina has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest and Mirza Ali is the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain on...

Khan and his seven team members – all of them final-year mechanical engineering students – make up one of the 13 student teams from eight Pakistani universities, which have registered to compete in the Shell Eco-marathon in Malaysia in July. The Eco-marathon, an annual event which takes places in Asia,...

The announcement comes just weeks after the Afghan government launched a new campaign to immunise more than eight million children between six months and five years old throughout the country. It said it had trained 46,000 volunteers to conduct the campaign which is funded by the American aid agency USAID,...

After the recent elections 2013, things aren't seem to cool down. Politicians are on fire, especially MQM party and Altaf Hussain. After the reality of the party is exhibited on the electronic media. After many videos of rigging in elections were out on every news channel. The PTI protesters gathered in Karachi against...

Pakistanis have finally done the unbelievable. The overwhelming turnover during the election despite the TTP threat is a final blow to the extremist ideology. The people of Pakistan have spoken for democracy. No military action could have delivered a more lethal blow to militancy. The first ever peaceful transition of...

How to Cast your vote - Pakistan Elections 2013 Public Awareness post - "Kindly confirm me that point (1) is it correct and authentic that the Ballot sheet will be sent on the address or it will be on there at polling station?" there's a slight confusion I have sent...