Category: Pakistan

Pinching prices, sinking hearts

Even thinking or talking of any remedies how to grapple with the spiraling and uncontrollable price-hike is a very tough ask, what to talk of actually implementing fanciful ideas and solutions for the rocketing prices! While inflation is round-the-year phenomenon…

Crackdown on Railways vendors, restaurants

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Upon the special directives of the Divisional Superintendent, Railways, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, a crackdown was carried out by the Divisional Commercial Officer (DCO), Nasir Nazeer, on vending stalls, restaurants and…

Railways high-ups meet freight transporters

Railways high-ups meet freight transporters

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chief Executive Officer and Senior General Manager of Pakistan Railways, Nisar Ahmed Memon, and the Divisional Superintendent, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, held an important meeting with freight transporters to resolve…

Mehran Express handed over to private party

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Mehran Express between Karachi and Mirpurkhas was handed over to RASS Logistics, under public-private partnership, on July 5. On this occasion, a grand ceremony was held at Karachi City Railway Station.…

It is wake up call for role models

Society is paralyzed, immobilized or procrastinated at its worst when celebrities of the showbiz world, or for that matter, political, social and educational leaders, are blind-folded and dumb-founded on the importance of soul-searching and self-appraisal in personal and practical life.…

Railways hold safety workshop at Sukkur

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Passenger safety remains the supreme priority of the Pakistan Railways and this was emphasized during recently conducted safety workshops in Karachi Division last month and lately in Sukkur Division during a…

Turning point in Pak-Canada ties

By Parvez Jamil Canada Pakistan relationship witnesses many turning points right from the debatable KANUPP nuclear power interaction to the so-called Islamophobia in many a Western- Canadian mind. However, this relationship assumes highly-positive dimensions, especially in the social sector development…

A futuristic approach to national budget

MashaAllah our so concerned experts can comment best on important budget focus as on military, agriculture, industry, energy, infrastructure, education, health and, above all, inflation etc. Seldom shared yet vital budget points here:   First point: How can a nation…