Tag: Day

Mirza’s exhibition of artworks opened recently at the Chawkandi Art gallery and would continue until Wednesday (tomorrow). Apparently dull, drab and dated, a...

International Mother’s Day was celebrated at the Avari Hotel on Sunday. The event was attended by people from all walks of life. Mothers were...

Like other parts of the globe the Labour Day will be observed in Pakistan today (Sunday) to remember the struggle of Chicago labourers and...

Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) has decided to celebrate the International Dance Day on April 29 by putting up a dance show at...

LAHORE - The 43rd National Athletics Championship started here at the Punjab Stadium on Tuesday morning. The event is sponsored by Pepsi. PML-Q League Parliamentarian Humayoun Akhtar was the chief guest of the opening ceremony. Apart from the heat categories of different disciplines, four finals were decided on the opening day of the meet. Bilqees Hashami of WAPDA won the gold medal in females pole vault. She dashed in the height of 2.30 metres. She was followed by Army's Sidra Bashir

LAHORE - Several documentaries were screened on the second day of the Vasaakh Film Festival at the Forman Christian College (FCC) on Tuesday. Contestants from various universities depicted their talent by showcasing wonderful documentaries. Around 23 short films and documentaries were screened on the second day of the film gala, which raised social problems and covered issues ranging from living in the slums of the River Ravi to poverty and domestic violence. '
Not to be loud'

LAHORE - Most CNG stations across Punjab remained shut for the second consecutive day as a result of the strike announced by the CNG Association and the Petroleum Retailers Association.
President of the association Ghayas Paracha, announced the strike on Tuesday and said that a shortage in Gas supply is highly unlikely during this season and despite the orders of the president and prime minister, the Sui Northern Gas was still persistent with gas load shedding.
Long queues

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan cricket team has been attending a two-day short training camp at Gaddafi stadium, Lahore for the series match in West Indies later this month.
Pakistan Cricket Board management said the players will take part in two practice sessions. The first session will start on Tuesday from 9am-12pm and the second session will start from 3pm-6pm, reported private news channel.
Along with physical training, the players will also be practicing in the nets under the

TOKYO - A second major aftershock measuring 6.3 rocked northeast Japan on Tuesday, swaying buildings in central Tokyo, shortly after the government upgraded its nuclear crisis to that on par with Chernobyl in 1986.
The latest aftershock struck the area of Fukushima, near the crippled Daiichi nuclear plant, said the Japan Meteorological Agency. A 6.3 aftershock hit Chiba prefecture, neighbouring Tokyo, earlier on Tuesday.

LAHORE - To promote the importance of communication, 'Sab Keh Do' day will be celebrated for the third consecutive year on April 17 with a theme to motivate those who have worked hard against all odds and difficulties, by expressing encouraging thoughts for them. The day is dedicated to create awareness about the significance of self-expression. In the spirit of recent and endorses the idea of building a stronger society by strengthening relationships.
Like previous years, an

LAHORE - Lahoris enjoyed a pleasant weather on holiday and came out from their homes to make the most out of it. Citizens thronged to zoos and parks. According to the met office, mainly dry weather is expected in plain areas of the country during next two to three days but scattered rain with thundershower expected in Quetta, Zhob, Kalat, Sukkur, Larkana divisions, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir.
The met office also informed that scattered rain with

ISLAMABAD - World Health Day was observed on April 7 across the globe including Pakistan. This year theme of the World Health Day is "Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow."
Each year, the World Health Organization selects a key global health issue and organizes international, regional and local events on the day and throughout the year to highlight the selected area. World Health Day 2011 focuses on antimicrobial resistance and its global spread.

KARACHI - Unidentified robbers struck at the Shershah scrap market on Wednesday, a day after traders observed a shutter-down strike to protest being harassed by extortionists.
Four men on motorcycles arrived at the market and within minutes looted four shops and more than a dozen customers.
Most of the shops at the market were closed at the time as traders were still uncertain about reopening their businesses following Tuesday's strike.
However, almost all traders of

ISLAMABAD - Federal Investigating Agency Director General (DG) Waseem Ahmed resigned from his post on Wednesday and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani appointed Balochistan Police inspector general (IG) Malik Muhammad Iqbal in his place.
Ahmad sent his resignation to the prime minister, who was in London on a private visit. Waseem had come under severe criticism from the Supreme Court for allegedly providing protection to an accused person in the National Insurance Company Limited

FAISALABAD - As the young doctors' strike for pay raise entered 40th day, the Punjab government, taking serious notice of patients' sufferings and deaths, has launched a recruitment campaign to replace the striking doctors.
In Faisalabad, outpatients departments and other wards in Allied Hospital, Civil Hospital and Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) have been abandoned by the young doctors, causing chaos in patients' management. The Punjab health secretary has set up a

KABUL - Around 250 young Afghans gathered at Kabul University on Tuesday shouting "death to America" on the fifth day of protests against the burning of a Koran by a fundamentalist US pastor. Thousands of people have taken to the streets in protests around Afghanistan.
There has been deadly violence in two cities, although most protests ended with nothing more dramatic than burning of flags and effigies. Twelve people died in Kandahar over Saturday and Sunday, when demonstrators

ISLAMABAD - An unusual situation was witnessed in Senate on Tuesday when token walkouts were staged three times on Tuesday. The first walkout was staged by the MQM to protest Interior Ministry's failure to arrest extortionists in Karachi.
The second walkout was seen when Rehman Malik, Naveed Qamar, Mukhdoom Shahbuddin and Babar Awan left the house , saying it would be useless to debate different issues when there was no minister in house to reply. The third walkout took place to