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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced to start e-ticketing facility and has thus became the first airline of the country providing the facility. Using this facility, now tickets can be booked at PIA’ s website through credit cards also. Talking to a private TV channel, PIA Chairman Ahmed Saeed on Saturday said PIA would start [...]

Over 300 new large-size buses would be Inducted in the city in the next three to six months by the Karachi Public Transport Society. According to officials, agreements have been signed with five companies and they have placed orders with assembling units for new buses. The new companies, which would bring in buses, are Geo [...]

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf opened a coastal highway on Thursday linking the main industrial city of Karachi with a deep-sea port being built with Chinese help in the country’s south. People in Baluchistan, Pakistan’s largest but poorest province, have for years complained that governments have ignored its development. The road is expected to open up [...]

The Hubara Bustard population, a migratory bird that comes to Pakistan from the freezing Central Asian States during November-December, have arrived here in flocks and their returning process would commence from February to end of March. As many as 20,000 to 25,000 Hubara populations have migrated to Pakistan every year, he said. The distance covered [...]

The Karachi Circular Railways will start operating from January, 2005. A report presented to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday said it had been decided that the KCR would be operated by an independent corporation, jointly owned by the Pakistan Railways, Sindh government and the Karachi city government. A task force was asked to suggest [...]

A visually impaired person from Switzerland, Martin Naef is exploring Pakistan, not to enjoy its marvellous tourists’ attraction sites but to interact with different social groups. Martin Naef, who also a Ph.D in education, entered Pakistan via Turkey and Iran, extensively travelling in public transport to come across the people belonging to different walks of [...]

Crocodiles with huge teeth-filled mouths lie in the sand and slap their snouts on the edge of sulphur springs, greeting worshippers who journey to the Mango Pir shrine on the outskirts of Karachi. It is one of thousands of Sufi shrines where millions of devotees come from all corners of the country to pray, chant, [...]

Iran is prepared to launch a ferry service from Chahbahar Port in Iran to Gwadar and Karachi, said governor of Iran’s province of Sistan-Balochistan, Engineer Hussain Amini during his visit to the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry here. The government of Iran will extend full cooperation for beginning of a ferry service [...]

The first international conference on volunteerism is to be held in Islamabad on Dec. 5, International Volunteer Day, to help achieve the goals of the UN Volunteers program (UNV), according to a press release issued here Wednesday by the UN Information Center. The three-day meeting on Volunteerism and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will focus [...]

Pakistanis living in Riyadh celebrated Eid Al-Fitr in a traditional way, despite the changes in lifestyle brought about by modern trends. Most Pakistani expatriates preferred to wear traditional dresses, colorful bangles and henna patterns during the celebration. Scores of men, young and old, were seen chewing betel quids, picnicking in the desert and holding gossip [...]