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National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) will assign vehicle identification and tracking number and issue the same on a secure document to the applicant. This VITS will be physically transferred to the owner of the vehicle. This will be a permanent laminated document, which will only contain the particulars of the registered vehicle. Vehicle information [...]

The coastal city Gawadar will become international business and trade hub with the commissioning of deep sea port next year and its proposed link up with main railway lines network with up-country that would pave the way for cheap mode of transportation to Central Asia, Europe and Africa… The Gawadar deep-sea port is due to [...]

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a helicopter service will be introduced in the Lahore region for transporting people injured during natural calamities and other accidents. He made the announcement at a meeting in the Mayo Hospital here on Saturday…

An inauguration ceremony was on Tuesday to name the bridge ‘Youyi’ to commemorate Chinese and Pakistani workers who devoted their life to the construction of the bridge between 1966 and 1978. The bridge across Indus River is located in Thakolt, the end of Sino-Pakistan Karakorum Highway.

A senior Chinese official said that Pakistan will have ample opportunities to expand its trade with China and other regional countries through the proposed new silk route. ‘It would open new avenues of cooperation and ‘people-to-people’ contact at bilateral and regional level, he said while talking to APP here Wednesday. The new Silk Road has [...]

Forty-year-old Rifaat Haye is one of the only three women to fly for Pakistan International Airlines. Fourteen years back she did the unthinkable in Pakistani society. She began flying lessons and made it as one of only three women to fly for Pakistan International Airlines “My family was quite supportive of me except my husband [...]

Mohammed Ahmed, the ten-day-old Pak baby, who developed complications in an Indian Airlines flight from Delhi to Bangalore where he was to undergo heart surgery, is in stable condition at a cardiac hospital here. Ahmed was airlifted to Bangalore on Thursday after the flight had an emergency landing Wednesday at Hyderabad to save him. The [...]

“The high-speed train will travel up to 140 km per hour, compared with a top speed of 100 km ph now reached by other trains. The high-speed trains will cut nearly one and a half hour off the typical five-hour Rawalpindi-to-Lahore trip”, he said this in news conference at Railway Headquarters here on Sunday.”