After the Death the DoctorBhoja Crash Triggers Private Airline Inspections
AFP
ISLAMABAD, April 23: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Monday began an inspection of all passenger planes operated by private airlines after a near-miss in Karachi that came just two days after a fatal crash in Islamabad. The checks were ordered on Sunday after a Shaheen Air flight with 178 people on board narrowly avoided disaster when its left rear tyre …
ABOARD THE BUSINESS EXPRESS:Pakistan's Most Luxurious and Expensive Train takes Off
Jennie Matthew (AFP)
Lahore, Feb 4: A security guard pointing a gun at your chest may not be a perk of first-class travel in the West, but it’s all part of the service on Pakistan’s gleaming Business Express. Thirteen carriages have been lovingly restored into a sleek sleeper to ply the 1,200 kilometres between Pakistan’s two biggest cities, Lahore and Karachi, on an …
State run institutions in Dire StraitsRailway Employee Dies Waiting for Pension
The Nation, Oct. 27: Mahmood Khan, a retired railway employee had been standing in a long queue since Tuesday to get his pension for September outside the National Bank’s Mughalpura workshop branch. On Wednesday morning while standing in the queue Muhammad Khan fell on the ground unconscious. People shifted him to nearby hospital where he was declared dead. It is …
What Ails Pakistan RailwaysThe Express Tribune
Oct 17, 2011 (9:49 PM) In Pakistan ISLAMABAD: With train operations coming to a halt across the country on Monday, a high level meeting was summoned to find a way out of the deepening crisis that has pushed Pakistan Railways (PR) to the brink. But the outcome of the meeting, summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari, was far from definite …
Bank workers resent layoffs, curbs on union activityDawn, August 7, 1997 - By Nafisa Hoodbhoy
KARACHI, Aug 7: Hundreds of bank and other financial institution employees have been transferred, retired, sent on forced leave, retrenched and offered the golden handshake even while their union offices have been closed over the last few months, bank union leaders have claimed. The union leaders from Habib Bank, Muslim Commercial Bank, Allied Bank and foreign banks interviewed by Dawn …