Punjab

Pakistan’s trade deficit swelled to more than $14 billion between June 2009 and April this year.

The SBP on Friday announced a slight increase in its benchmark interest rate from 12.5 per cent to 13 per cent.

Two children were swept away by flood water in a rain drain near sector G-10 in Islamabad on Friday.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani directed Pakistan Navy to move its personnel to Khyber-P­akhtunkh­wa.

SC disqualified a provincial legislator from Balochistan, Zahoor Hussain Khosa, for falsifying his academic degree.

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan has become one of the major destinat­ions for Chinese investors.

Flight ED202 was not given its ‘orbit’ by the control tower as it prepared to land in Islamabad.

Muhammad Ali, a 38-year-old Edhi ambulance driver, hasn’t been able to eat.

Monsoon floods have caused havoc in the rural and urban areas of Punjab.

The crashed aircraft’s black box is yet to be found, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters on Thursday.

MPA Sanaullah Mastikhel has written a letter to Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif

Shahbaz Sharif has directed quality and low priced food items be made available to the people during Ramzan.

Torrential rains continue to wreak havoc as numerous reports of severe damage are coming in from across the country.

As news of the plane crash broke, families, relatives and friends started gathering at the emergency ward of Pims.

Syed Haider Zulfiqar Shah was also among the passengers of ill-fated flight 202.

Qmara Zaman Kaira revealed that the Black Box of the crashed Airblue plane had not been found till Wednesday evening.

PALPA spokesman said that just before the crash PALPA had pointed out the violation of air safety regulations by PIA.

The SC continued the hearing of the petitions against certain clauses of the 18th amendment.

It was not until late Wednesday afternoon that the actual scale of the tragedy set in.