Tag: People

LAHORE - Pakistan's top tennis player Aisamul Haq Qureshi believes that people with special abilities should be given their due right in the society. Aisam was chief guest of the exhibition match organized by the PIMH at its premises on Wednesday.
PIMH XI played a 10-over match against the team of Fountain House with 50 percent staff members and the remaining the special persons.
Aisam said that such activities should be organised more often to give them joy of life. "I

LAHORE - The Race Course Police on Tuesday registered a case against three people including Kamran Gulzar, Shamshad Gulzar and Azam Shamshad for abusing and threatening a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation officer of dire consequences.
According to details, NAB Investigation Officer Nadeem Sajid, investigating embezzlements in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project arrested accused Danish Shamshad involved in the aforementioned project's reference from

LAHORE - Winter's tail end has just begun and the sun glows warmly much to the relief of Lahore, after an almost freezing winter season. With a slight rise in temperatures, the public has started to filter out of their homes, visiting nearby parks and other outdoor places. One of these frequently visited parks is Lawrence Gardens.
Virtually abandoned in the gloomy and dreary coldness of December and early January, the Lawrence Gardens, now officially known as Bagh-e-Jinnah, are

DASKA - The people of Pasrur have announced to set up a camp at Pasrur Kutchery in protest against the alleged illegal sale of more than 200 acres of land of the Pasrur Sugar Mills at throwaway price against its actual price.
Pasrur Market Committee Administrator Rana Muhammad Afzal advocate said the Pasrur Sugar Mills was the property of Punjab Industrial Development Board but the officials concerned of the provincial revenue department had allegedly sold out 200 acres of land

LAHORE - Civil society activists and intellectuals on Friday condemned killing of three Pakistani citizens by an American national on Thursday. Political analyst Orya Maqbool Jan said that the incident is shameful and challenges Pakistan's sovereignty and independence.
"They don't even behave in this manner in places they have occupied," Jan said while referring to Americans and their occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. He said that this sort of behaviour is seen in jails managed

LAHORE - Doctors are the most qualified people in society and they should behave accordingly, Sheikh Zayed Hospital Chairman and Dean Dr Saeed said on Friday. He made these remarks while meeting all doctors of the hospital to reassure them that his office would work as a coordinating office and he wants to facilitate doctors in order to make working environment more conducive.
Saeed was very keen to listen to doctors' problems and promised to solve and rectify them.

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the attorney general and the SC Registrar's Office to compile a list of all missing persons against whom evidence was available that they were in custody of intelligence agencies.
A three-member bench - comprising Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa - sought the list so that the court could order registration of criminal cases against those responsible. The court noted that

KARACHI - Prominent artist Nausheen Saeed believes that furniture, a useful human invention, represents people as well.
"We buy or build a piece of furniture - a chair, table, bed, dressing table, sofa, bench - in its new form, but with time and usage, this newly manufactured product acquires an appearance and character that belongs to - and betrays - a particular person," Saeed explains.
In her furniture series, she has tried to investigate that aspect of objects in

KARACHI - The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has announced holding a large public gathering at the Lal Qila Ground in Azizabad on January 30 to be attended by people from all ethnic and cultural entities. On the occasion, party chief Altaf Hussain would address everyone by telephone from London.
Members of MQM's Coordination Committee Yousuf Shahwani, Ashfaq Mangi and Gulfaraz Khan Khattak on Thursday said in a press conference held at the Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall that the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday said it would order abduction cases against intelligence agencies if the missing people weren't found, and directed the secretaries of Defence and Interior ministries to ensure their presence in court at every hearing of the case.
Before adjourning the hearing for a week, the two-member bench of Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali said those who took oath under the constitution would have to follow the constitution and

LAHORE - On the 5th of January, Haji Maqbool Ahmad (63), of Engineers Town, was reading a newspaper on his terrace when a stray bullet hit him in the back and he died instantly. His autopsy report confirmed that the bullet removed from his body matched other stray bullets recovered from the area, bullets that residents allege originate at the Army Firing Range, about 2.5 kms from Haji Maqbool's house.
A Pakistan Today investigation into the incident reveals that residents of

LAHORE - The speculation of appointing Senator Latif Khosa as governor of Punjab has sparked a new debate among the members of the public, especially students, Pakistan Today has learnt.
"The government should have appointed a person with a sound educational background," they said, adding "how will he act as the chancellor of all public sector universities?" They said that people like Asma Jahangir and Aitzaz Ahsan should be given a chance to be the constitutional head of the

PESHAWAR - Unwarranted price hike has forced the lower and middleclass to buy warm clothes from Landa and Sasta bazaars all over the city. Inflation, along with the falling mercury has paralyzed the masses, leading them to adopt desperate measures to function as fog and chilly westerly wave engulfs the country.
Warm garments made in the local factory are too expensive for people, a survey by Pakistan Today revealed, who are now resorting to Landa bazaars and sasta bazaars in the

CHARSADDA - Five people including two policemen were injured when a planted bomb at a compact discs (CD) shop went off in Charsadda bazaar on Friday.
Reportedly, the shopkeeper called the police when he saw a planted bomb at CD distributors market. The police reached the spot and tried to defuse the bomb but the explosive material went off injuring five people including two policemen.
The injured people were out of danger, sources in the hospital said.

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced the withdrawal of the recent increase in petroleum prices, reverting them to the values as on December 31.
Following the reversion, petrol will be sold at Rs 72.96 per litre, HOBC at Rs 86.67 per litre, HSD Rs 78.33 per litre, and Kerosene Oil at Rs 70.95 per litre.
This was the second successive retreat by the lame duck government on economic issues due to immense pressure by its coalition partners and

KARACHI - Though the social networking website Facebook has removed Mumtaz Qadri's pages, a number of communities are emerging with the name and more than 1,000 people have liked these community pages.
Qadri's fan page reportedly attracted more than 2,000 fans in less than 24 hours that was later deleted by the Facebook administration but Qadri's fans were creating communities and different pages on the site.
The communities like 'Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri Should be

Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Thursday held that appointment of government officers is a policy matter of the government and they had no privilege to get posted at stations of their liking. Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed made these observations while reserving judgment on a petition challenging the appointment of Rafiq Wahla as director sports of Government College University, Faislabad. The petition was filed by a teacher of same institution, Imtiaz Ahmad, pleading that Wahla's