Murree is a mountain resort town, located in the Galyat region of the Pir Panjal Range, within the Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan. It forms the outskirts of the Islamabad-Rawalpindi metropolitan area, and is about 30 km northeast of Islamabad. It has average altitude of 2,291 metres.Construction of the town was started in 1851 on the hill of Murree as a sanatorium for British troops. The permanent town of Murree was constructed in 1853 and the church was consecrated shortly thereafter. One main road was established, commonly referred to even in modern times, as the mall. Murree was the summer headquarters of the colonial Punjab Government until 1876 when it was moved to Shimla. Read More
Roads in and around the Murree hill station in Pakistan -- where 23 tourists died on Friday night while being stranded in their vehicles -- had not been repaired for the last two years that caused the snow accumulated in the crevices to harden causin ...
Former Pakistan Senate Chairman and current Senator from Sindh province Mian Raza Rabbani demanded a judicial probe into the Murree tragedy which claimed the lives of 23 people. ...
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) over the handling of the Murree incident that claimed the lives of more than 20 people after their vehi ...
Ten people were killed and 13 were injured in separate incidents in different parts of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province due to the heavy rains, local media reported on Sunday. ...
Pakistani authorities imposed a temporary ban on the entry of tourists in Shogran, Naran and Kaghan after the Murree snowfall tragedy which killed at least 23 people on Saturday, reported local media. ...
The death toll from heavy snowfall in Pakistan's Murree has surged to 23 on Sunday as the forces evacuate over a thousand tourists from the affected area, reported local media. ...
