Lahore

LAHORE: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would soon start a public campaign for preparing for the local government (LG) elections and strengthening the party in the city, PPP Lahore Women Wing President Faiza Malik said on Saturday in a press release.
She said that the federal government would complete its constitutional tenure, as it had assumed power with the support of the masses instead of any state institution.
The PPP leader said that consistency in democracy was

LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has cancelled the tenders of various development projects worth Rs 100 million awarded to private firms after reports of massive corruption and receiving kickbacks in the pre-qualification process and other procedural requirements laid down in the LDA Act surfaced, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The decision was taken after the CM Secretariat took notice of the violations in the tendering criterion.
CM Secretariat officials told

LAHORE: The Revivers Galleria, in Gulberg, saw the vividness of colours when Nisar Ahmed's paintings adorned its walls. 'Satrangi', which was the title of the art exhibition was a collection of paintings - oil and acrylic on canvas - producing one of the loudest, most colourful effects, each layer resonating the power and opulence of his brush.
In each work there is a woman shown only till her waist, and sometimes lower, revealing a bare midriff, with a skirt underneath her

LAHORE: Three died of electrocution and three sustained injuries while putting up tents for a wedding in Shad Bagh police precincts on Saturday.
Investigation Officer Sub-Inspector Khalid Mehmood said the victims were employees of Usman Catering Service.
He explained that six people from the catering service were putting up tents and lights for a wedding in Taj Pura ground when the central iron pole, on which lights were to be placed, short circuited with the

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Friday issued notices to the federal and Punjab governments and sought a detailed report until November 22 on a petition challenging the excessive increase in sugar prices across the country.
Due to supply shortage, the commodity was being sold for Rs 130 per kilogramme in the retail market. Justice Saeed observed that the supply shortage was created by the sugar hoarding mafia, which had made money by selling the

LAHORE: Despite calling upon the federal government to implement verdicts of the superior courts, the Punjab government and its entity, the City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has not implemented the Lahore High Court's (LHC) judgment ordering the removal of all illegal speed breakers in Lahore with immediate effect, Pakistan Today has learnt.
LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on November 3 had ordered the municipal authorities to remove all illegal speed breakers

LAHORE: Religious seminaries (madrassa) in the city have cancelled the Eid holidays of students to initiate the yearly drive to prepare groups of students to collect the hides of sacrificial animals over the Eid holiday, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday.
Religious seminaries have assigned the students duties in different localities of the city to collect animal hides while tasking them with organising the advertisement campaigns: placing banners, requesting citizens to donate

LAHORE: University of Health Sciences (UHS) shall conduct a single and unified entrance test from next year for intermediate candidates interested in taking admission in medical and dental institutions of the Punjab, UHS Vice Chancellor Prof Malik Hussain Mubashar said on Thursday.
Addressing a press conference, Malik said the decision of conducting single entrance test was made keeping in view the best international practices. He said that entry test shall be held soon after FSc

LAHORE: The committee formed by the Services and General Administration Department (S&GAD) to monitor the fumigation campaign led by the City District Government (CDGL) officials to counter the dengue virus has found lapses in the process.
The S&GAD had tasked senior government officials with monitoring the fumigation drive across the provincial metropolis, assigning all nine towns to nine senior officials. The committee became effective from October 30. Each official monitored

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed will today (Friday) take up a petition challenging the unprecedented increase in sugar prices and the government's failure to form any regularity authority to check the sugar cartels and hoarders.
The LHC had earlier returned the petition stating that certified copies were not attached with the petition, after which the petitioner re-filed it along with all certified copies on Thursday. Petitioner's counsel Azhar Siddique

LAHORE: A seminar held by Sahil discussed the needs and steps that should be taken to the problems of street children. It was also discussed among experts how to solve the problems of the increasing number of street children.
Dr Naeem Zafar from Pahchan organization, stated that providing medical and psychological treatment to the vulnerable children was integral. These children were susceptible to diseases, being out in the open, in unprotected and disease prone areas, and are

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has called upon the federal government to protest against the cancellation of British visa to former Jamaat chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and other (Jamaat) leaders of the country.
In a letter to Foreign Affairs Minister Shah Mehmud Qureshi, he said that Qazi Hussain Ahmed had to visit Britain on the invitation of the UK Islamic Mission to attend various events. The British High Commission in Islamabad had issued a

LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif has ordered the Punjab chief secretary to submit a detailed report on Nov 15 on the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore's revenue generation strategy and the government's declared policy of offering free education to students.
BISE Lahore recently started collecting Rs 450 from each student for issuing Matric and Intermediate result cards. During the suo motu proceedings, BISE Chairman Dr Akram

LAHORE: Sales of sacrificial animals have not gained momentum in the provincial capital so far due to their exorbitant prices. A market survey conducted by Pakistan Today revealed that the prices of sacrificial animals had increased by 55 to 66 percent when compared with the previous year's prices.
The survey, conducted at Johar Town and Bund Road animal markets, showed that the price of goats had witnessed the highest increase of around 60-66 percent, followed by the prices of

LAHORE: Under the nose of a Punjab government losing no moment to champion good governance, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is flouting the rules and regulations for floating tenders of development projects worth million of rupees, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A senior LDA official revealed to Pakistan Today that the glaring violations in floating of tenders could be gauged with the fact that LDA had hired around 40 private firms through pre-qualification processes without

LAHORE: The Punjab government has not yet initiated a crackdown against hoarders and black marketers as they continue to sell sugar and other vegetables at inflated prices, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Last year, Punjab government launched a crackdown against the hoarders for selling sugar at higher rates i.e. Rs 60 per kg but this year the consumers have no choice but to buy sugar at Rs 120-130 per Kg as the authorities seem unbothered to check escalating prices of not only sugar

LAHORE: Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sleuths and police constables thrashed and detained journalists over a minor issue in front of the office of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the Civil Lines Police precincts on Wednesday.
The journalists from print and electronic media staged a protest forcing the Civil Lines Police to register cases against the security personnel. The police later arrested four including Asim, Tanveer, Farooq, Baber of the Tipu Company after