Islamabad: Six members of the same family, including two minor children, were killed in a road accident at Okara bypass in Pakistan, (Geo News) reported.
Police said the family going to Arifwala from Lahore when their car rammed into a roadside parked trailer.
As a result, Khalid Hussain, his mother, sister, wife Kalsoom, and two minor children died on the spot.
The deceased were residents of Arifwala.
28 rebels killed
in Afghanistan
Kabul: 28 Taliban militants were killed in joint operations carried out by Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in different parts of the country.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministsry said in a statement issued today the its forces, together with ISAF, carried out joint operation n various parts of the country in which 28 Taliban militants were killed, seven injured and another arrested.
The statement added that the operations were carried out in Baghlan, Kandahar, Herat, Helmond and Paktia provinces.
Tourism course for schools
LAHORE: The School Education Department of Pakistan’s Punjab province has decided to incorporate tourism articles and picture stories in the curriculum of class one to eight in all schools of the province.
The curriculum wing in collaboration with TDCP has evolved these articles which contain basic information about worth-seeing historic places of Punjab.
According to a handout issued here yesterday, this was disclosed by Minister for Education and Tourism Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan while presiding over a meeting to synchronize both the departments for motivating the new generation to inculcate an interest in the young mindset for our own history and the beadle of nature in Pakistan.
147MW project
launch soon
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to perform the groundbreaking of 147MW Patrind hydropower project in Azad Kashmir on August 15.
The Korea Water Resources Corporation of South Korea is the sponsor and developer of the country’s second independent hydropower project in the private sector.
The firm, commonly known as K-Water, has already started work on the project processed by the Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB).
The project is expected to start commercial operation in 2017 at an estimated investment of $362m.
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