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15 killed, 28 injured in Peshawar bus blast; SSP Operations

  • PESHAWAR, (APP): At least 15 people were killed including three women and a childas as a bomb exploded in a bus on Sunehri Masjid Road in Peshawar Cantonment Wednesday morning, SSP Operations Peshawar Abbas Majeed Marwat told APP. At least 28 persons were also injured in a bus blast bringing Civil Secretariat employees to Peshawar […]

  • PM condemns terrorist attack in Peshawar

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Peshawar. The Prime Minister expressed deep grief and sorrow over the loss of precious lives and said “these cowardly attacks cannot shatter our unflinching resolve against terrorism.” The Prime Minister directed the concerned authorities to provide best treatment to those […]

  • Peace in Fata returned due to sacrifice of tribesmen, security forces: Governor

    PESHAWAR, (APP): Khyber Pakthunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra said Tuesday that peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) was returned due to supreme sacrifices of the tribal people and security forces, saying the entire nation held it in high esteem. He said the sacrifices rendered by tribal people for establishment of durable peace and […]

  • CPEC, a gateway for prosperous Pakistan: Minister

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab has said that China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project would change fate of Pakistan as well as the whole region. Talking to a private news channel, he said that it was a vision of Prime Minister, Muhammed Nawaz Sharif to link the whole country through […]

  • Govt plans to upgrade Railway tracks under CPEC

    ISLAMABAD, (APP): The government has planned to upgrade and install railway track from Gwadar-Quetta-Jacobabad via Besima tehsil in Balochistan, under China-Pak-Economic Corridor (CPEC). Under the project, a 560 kilometres track will be laid from Bostan-Kotla Jam on the main line-II via Zhob and Dera Ismail Khan and another 682 kilometres track to be laid from […]

  • Rivers,reservoirs report

    LAHORE, (APP): The position of rivers inflow and outflow at Tarbela,Mangla and Chashma along with the reservoirs levels and the barrages on Tuesday was as follows: Rivers: Indus at Tarbela: Inflows 33200 cusecs and Outflows 20000 cusecs, Kabul at Nowshera: Inflows 33200 cusecs and Outflows 33200 cusecs, Jhelum at Mangla: Inflows 54700 cusecs and Outflows […]