Tag: Residents

The deserted streets and shuttered shops in the usually bustling Chinese areas of Kashgar city on Wednesday stand as testament to the splintered ethnic...

The residents of street 8, Ummar road, Dhok Elahi Bux have expressed grave concerns over the dilapidated condition of their streets and demanded their...

The poor inhabitants of katchi abadis (slum areas) are suffering badly from the ongoing monsoon rains as the leaking roofs of their houses deny...

Residents of Bhara Kahu are facing a lot of problems, as the authorities concerned seem least interested in cleaning the locality. The residents of...

Islamabad is considered to be one of the most developed world capitals but that does not imply that its residents are free of worries....

The residents of the localities adjacent to the Gharo Grid Station have installed an illegal power supply system and are insisting that the Karachi...

A one-point agenda meeting was recently held at the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) office. Station Commodore 5 Corps Brig Anis Ahmed, who is also...

The residents of the capital are facing acute water shortage as demand for water tankers has reached 800 to 900 on daily basis. The...

Every year, the residents along Gujjar Nullah in Nazimabad No 2 witness the famous Urdu-language proverb ‘katra katra banay samandar’ quite literally, as rainwater...

ISLAMABAD - Residents of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi anticipating hardships in the wake of strike of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations for indefinite period across Punjab from April 13, have called for early solution to the problem.
The All Pakistan CNG Association has decided to shut filling stations, including petrol pumps, only in Lahore for an indefinite period against two-day weekly closure.
"The people will have to face great difficulties due to

KARACHI - Shah Faisal Town Administrator Kamal Mustafa has appealed to the residents of the town to cooperate with the housing census teams, according to a statement issued on Monday.
The census will be conducted from April 5 to 19. He called upon residents to provide their complete details for registration to the teams, which will visit every house. He said that the development of the city as well as the planning and distribution of resources depends on the results of the

KARACHI - The residents of Achhro Thar (White Desert) are demanding the government to provide them with river water. Achhro Thar is believed to be the most backward area of Pakistan, and is often affected by droughts due to which the underground water level has dropped drastically.
During former president Pervez Musharraf's government, Thar Desert was provided with adequate river water with the help of pipes and vast networks of roads. However, no government since then has

LAHORE - The DHA Resident Association constituted five standing committees on Wednesday to address all sorts of issues faced by residents and to improve working relationship with DHA administration on cordial grounds The step was taken in an Executive Council meeting held under DHA Residence Association (DHA RA) President Rohail Ikram's headship at his office. DHA RA Secretary General Azam Nasir Chaudhry presented one month progress report at the meeting that thrashed out various

FAISALABAD - Poor sanitation, bad smell, boiling gutters and flooding streets forced the residents of Rasoolpura and Mehar Colony to take out rallies against Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) and their elected representatives. Hundreds of protestors blocked the main Jarranwala Road at NFC Chowk, disrupting the two-way traffic by burning tyres and throwing stones on the main road.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-WASA and anti-government

LAHORE - Newly-elected president of the Defence Housing Society (DHA) Residents Association Rohail Akram on Sunday expressed his will to improve relations with other authorities. Akram made these remarks after the oath-taking ceremony of DHA Residents Association. He said that regular meetings would be called at every sector to develop an effective relationship with residents.
He urged executive members to find out problems of residents by visiting their respective sectors and

ISLAMABAD - In violation of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) rules and regulations, the elimination of the buffer zone between the industrial and residential areas in sectors I-9 and I-10 is posing a threat to the health of the capital's residents.
In Islamabad's master plan, the Industrial Area is isolated from residential areas by a buffer zone, but later CDA had converted the buffer zone into a commercial area and industries were constructed amidst populated area, with

PHOENIX - Arizona residents poured out their grief at a candlelight vigil at the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix for victims of a shooting rampage at a Tucson shopping center.
Authorities would not give an official estimate, but a small crowd of a few dozen soon grew to number between four and five hundred on a small plaza in front of the capitol complex as night fell. Those gathered mourned for the six victims who were killed in the shooting, and the dozen or so