Tag: Lahoris

LAHORE - The first-ever Lahore Shopping Festival 2011 was opened here at Lahore Polo Club in the presence of hundreds of participants who had flocked to be part of this event. It was expected that Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif would open the festival but later MNA Hamza Shahbaz opened the ceremony. A polo match was also part of the Lahore Shopping Festival opening ceremony.
Hundreds of pigeons and balloons were also released in the air the mark the opening of the Lahore Shopping

WASHINGTON - Citizens of Lahore are among more than one billion urban residents who will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanisation, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday. The shortage threatens sanitation in some of the world's fastest-growing cities but also poses risks for wildlife if cities pump in water from outside, said the article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study found that under

LAHORE - "Life is crazy," says Rohana Deva. "People are actors and their life is a stage...and love...is mad." Deva is quoting the song that his puppet character has been singing on stage. The character, a king, is pensive and performs alone on stage. He is a doll about a hundred years old, with only a slight chip on his nose, but that cannot be seen from far off in the audience. He wears a royal costume of black with gold embroidery, and his eyes are painted and elongated in the same way

LAHORE - Lahoris continued to enjoy the pleasant weather resulting from the massive hailstorm which hit the city on Saturday and shared pictures and videos of the snowcapped city on various social networking websites. Citizens claimed it was snowfall not a hailstormt that hit the city at the weekend.
Talal Raza, a local student studying in the US, was mesmerised by the pictures posted on social networking site Facebook and wrote, "Did it snow in Lahore?" Raza said that he went

LAHORE - Sky dropped raindrops and snow in various areas of the country on Sunday; Met office has predicted widespread rain and thunderstorm with snowfall over the hills in Punjab including Islamabad, Khyber PakhtoonKhawa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir during next few days.
While scattered rain and thunderstorm is likely in North East Balochistan and Sindh including Karachi. Lovely weather in Lahore compelled the citizens to make most of their holiday. They went to the parks and

LAHORE - Lahoris, deeply distressed by rising inflation and the country's overall situation, came to the roads and danced to celebrate Pakistan cricket team's long-awaited win over New Zealand in the one-day series on Thursday. People chanted slogans in favour of cricketers and especially skipper Shahid Afridi.
Dozens of people gathered at various places and praised the team's performance, which had brought smiles to their faces in times of deepening economic crisis. They hoped

LAHORE - Winter's first rain hit Lahore on Thursday blushing up roads, buildings and trees. Lahoris seemed jubilant, as the downpour reduced the temperature substantially. A proper rainfall was seen after three months in the city and people were seen enjoying the weather, as the rain splashed out dust and dryness from the air and trees.
Although dim light was observed since morning, the city remained covered with fog and people expressed their happiness on the change in weather.

LAHORE - Light drizzle has left the city with a dreary, somber mood. Mist hangs low and sometimes not even the dark outline of trees is visible. But the bleak winter weather has not been able to replace the excitement of New Years' eve. Almost everyone has something planned out for the night. Whether it is dance parties or family reunions, people in Lahore are ready to say goodbye to the last night of 2010, filled with hope and excitement. Event managing businesses are flourishing and

LAHORE - A large number of people visited graveyards during Youm-e-Ashur to pray for the departed soul of their loved ones.
Many people visited graveyards on Eids but Muharram, which marks the martyrdom of the Holy Prophet's (PBUH) grandson Imam Hussain (RA), his family members and companions, provided another opportunity for people to visit the graves of their loved one who had passed away but left behind sweet memories to cherish.
Although, city roads were deserted during

LAHORE: As security for Muharram processions and majalis increased and people thronged Shia majority neighbourhoods and imambargahs all over the city, main roads of Lahore and markets were stripped of any movement. While traffic jams block main arteries of the city on a daily basis and traffic police face dire circumstances in regulating traffic flow at signals, Lahore was completely empty on Thursday. But unlike past terrorist attacks that left a sense of misery, tension and fear on