ISLAMABAD-Minister for National Food Syed Fakhar Imam says 26 billion rupees are required for purchasing planes, vehicles, spray and other necessary material to wipe out locusts.  Talking to private news channel, he said federal government would provide an amount of 14 billion rupees while ...

ISLAMABAD-The spray operations are continuing across the country to control and eliminate locusts.  According to the spokesperson of National Disaster Management Authority, 5630 hectares were sprayed during the last twenty four hours. He said that over 596,000 hectares of area has so far been ...

ISLAMABAD-National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) says survey and spray operations are underway to control locust across the country.  According to the spokesperson of NDMA, survey of 353,000 hectares of area was carried out while 11,300 hectares were sprayed across the country during ...

ISLAMABAD-National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) says survey and spray operations are underway across the country to control the locust.  According to the spokesperson of NDMA, survey of 326000 hectares of area has been carried out while 10,000 hectares have been sprayed across the ...

Over 4,500 hectares of area has been sprayed to control locust in various parts of the country during the last 24 hours. According to National Disaster Management Authority, this includes 2,900 hectares in Balochistan, 100 hectares in Punjab, 900 hectares in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 600 hectares in ...

ISLAMABAD,(APP):Parliamentary Secretary for Commerce Shandana Gulzar on Friday said the Federal Government had provided five aircraft to the provinces, two to Sindh and three to Punjab, for areal spray of pesticides to eliminate locusts swarms in the affected areas. ...

*KARACHI - Unidentified assailants opened indiscriminate fire over Pak Sarzameen Party’s office in Nazimabad.* According to senior superintendent police (SSP) central, unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire at PSP’s town office, Nazimabad, resulting in bullet wounds to four. The ...

NEW DELHI - Indian Army sources today said that its soldiers, charged with murder over the death of two civilians in firing on protesters at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian, "opened fire in a desperate situation", NDTV has reported. A crowd of protesters injured a soldier with stones and ...

JOHANNESBURG: (APP) Two Mosques in Cape Town have been defaced in "Islamophobic" attacks with blood sprayed on walls and a pig's snout left on an entrance gate, South African officials said Tuesday. The Western Cape provincial government condemned the two "despicable" attacks on Mosques in Kalk ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) A bloody summer of protest in Kashmir has been met with a ruthless response from Indian security forces, who fired hundreds of thousands of metal pellets into crowds of civilians, leaving hundreds blinded.According to an article published in The Guardian on Tuesday, the latest ...