Islamabad—Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmed has said that prices of food items including fruits and vegetables have come down in the last Ashra of Ramadan. The stability in the prices have been achieved due to mainly adopting effective control mechanism.Besides this, maintaining balance in the demand and supply of items has also resulted in the stability of prices. The administration has conducted daily price checking and the profiteers have been fined and imposed heavy fines on the spot during

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Islamabad—District Health Officer Dr Amirzada Khan has said that Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has taken all preventive measures against the outbreak of dengue fever in the rural areas of Islamabad. He said all health centers in the rural areas have been directed to immediately undertake the necessary measures against the dengue fever in the rural areas. DHO ICT Dr Amirzada said that after reported suspected cases of Dengue fever from Taxilla and District Rawalpindi, the Health Department ICT

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Islamabad—The mere stapling and punching do not invalidate the Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) as out of 22 features the harming of one or two features do not make a difference, Deputy Chairman National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Tariq Malik said. Talking to Waqt TV, he said that by punching - the appearance of a card is essentially disturbed but card remains valid till its number is readable. This is same as currency notes are remain valid till their number is intact. If number of

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Islamabad—The contractor as well as the environmentalists of Capital Development Authority has managed to protect about 200 pine trees falling in the Zero Point Interchange project area just bringing a slight change in the layout plan. "We have just shrunk a shoulder at Faisal Avenue in front of Zarai Taraqiati Bank to protect about 200 pine trees, each aged about 40,” said an official closely linked to the project. He said it is a cumbersome task to transplant these trees as neither the CDA has enough technology

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Islamabad—The residents of twin cities are perturbed over increase of fares of local transport in wake of upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. Most of the people leaving for their hometowns to celebrate Eid with their families also facing shortage of vehicles. They are complaining overcharging by transporters against normal fares, the inter-city buses and vans have also shown extraordinary surge in fares as the passengers want to reach their hometowns before Eid. The situation leading to exchange of hot words between transporters and

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