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Transcript from Air Blue blame Captain for crash – CAA concludes
18 months after the fateful Air Blue plane crash in Islamabad, the transcript of conversations between Pilot, First Officer and Control Tower has been made public by the Civil Aviation Authortiy (CAA). AirBlue flight ED-202 crashed in the Margalla Hills on July 28, 2010, killing all 146 passengers and 6 crew members on board. Incidentally,…
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List of Passengers and Crew of Bhoja Air B4-123
List of passengers and cabin crew of Bhoja Air flight B4-123 that crashed at Koral Chowk on Islamabad Express Highway in Rawalpindi. Passengers in Bhoja Air flight B4-123: 1. Abbas Ali 2. Abida Javed Malik 3. Adeel Chughtai 4. Aiman Ikram 5. Altamash Khan 6. Anisa Akbar 7. Anum Hussain 8. Asif Aftab 9. Asmaa…
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Bhoja Air flight from Karachi to Islamabad crashed near Rawalpindi. 127 dead.
It is reported that Bhoja Air flight B213, crashed at the Koral Chowk on Islamabad Express Highway in Rawalpindi. The passengers and crew, a total of 127 people, are reportedly dead on scene. According to Geo, the plane which flew from Karachi at 5:00 PM was supposed to land in Islamabad at 6:50 PM, but…
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Asad Umar leaves Engro Corporation to join Pakistan Tehreek Insaf
Asad Umar, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Engro Corporation Limited, has left his job of 27 years, to join Pakistan Tehreek Insaf. According to the Express Tribune: Umar’s 27-year career at Engro began in 1985, when the company was still a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, the global oil giant. “I still remember the exact…
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Lest we Forget: The Death of Patriotism
It seems to me that we have been collectively successful in murdering Pakistani patriotism. We have spilled green blood as if it were poison. And now that not so much as a drop of purity flows within our veins, we still feel we have not been cleansed. Perhaps, it wasn’t the green that we were…
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Sell Dresses, Not Modesty: Karachi comes out against obscene Lawn advertisements
The fashion scene has changed in the metropolitan cities of Pakistan, especially in Karachi, since the arrival of what is now known as the Lawn wars. One textile company after another, followed by one designer to the next, and followed by every Tom, Dick and Henry, have launched their brand of lawn – or the…
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Ban on Shisha Smoking in Sindh
The Deputy Commissioners of all five districts of Karachi have been directed to launch a crackdown campaign against places offering shisha smoking from today by Karachi Commissioner Roshan Ali Shaikh. This is in compliance with Sindh Home department’s imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code banning shisha smoking/selling across the province for two…
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Another innocent girl raped in Pakistan
March 24, 2012… Another innocent girl raped… Two policemen among five gang-raped a college student in Sheikhupura… What a shame. According to the police, the incident took place when a student of college was returning home accompanied by her cousin from coaching centre. Policemen stopped them, confiscating mobile phones and Rs 2,500 cash and threatening…
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General Aslam Baig gets physical with DAWN reporter
General (retd) Mirza Aslam Baig, ex- COAS, gets physical with DAWN reporter when he was asked about his role in Mehran Bank scandal. General Baig is under scrutiny by Supreme Court of Pakistan these days on his alleged role in distributing large cache of funds to Pakistani politicians to topple Benazir government in early 90s.
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