ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan is leaving for London next week for a 14-day stay with his children, it was learnt yesterday. It’ll be his first visit aborad after his party’s impressive performance in the May election. A PTI leader said that Khan will stay in London for at least two weeks. He will also undergo a check-up due to ‘slow recovery’ from injuries he sustained after he fell off a forklift during a poll campaign.
Pakistan cities hit by quake
Islamabad: A quake measuring magnitude 5.1 on the Richter Scale jolted yesterday several cities in the northern and eastern Pakistan, including the capital Islamabad. Pakistan Meteorology Department sources said that the tremor jolted Islamabad, Srjodha, Chitral, Malakand, Swat, Abbottabad and North Waziristan.
Fish that lives without water
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Museum of Natural History has about 40 specimens of a fish, which can live without water, in its repository section for identification and research. The fish was found in the Botanical Garden, Nowshera, during the annual digging and clearing of drainage channels of the Plant Biodiversity Centre.
29,000 power metres replaced
ISLAMABAD: As part of a power distribution programme, the US Agency for International Development is replacing old mechanical and damaged meters with state-of-the-art electrostatic meters in three government-owned power distribution companies.
More than 20,000 metres have been replaced in LESCO and 9,000 in FESCO and PESCO in selected sub-divisions where improvements in meter reading and customer billing can be monitored, officials said.
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