Tag: Road

LAHORE - After the success of chamber road shows last year, Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT) is conducting chamber conferences across Punjab aimed at providing awareness to a wide range of entrepreneurs. Agribusiness and livestock are the main sectors of these road shows which will be focused upon and are primarily organised for the promotion of these sectors.
In this regard, the first road show was arranged at Lahore Chambers of Commerce and Industry yesterday, while

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Monday deputed Pervaiz Hassan, an eminent lawyer, as a mediator to settle the issue of widening of Canal Road , Lahore and asked him to submit the report within one month. A four-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case on chopping of trees in the provincial metropolis in order to widen Canal Road.
Dr Pervaiz Hassan

MURIDKE - Two youngsters, including a son of a renowned trade leader, died in a road accident here on GT Road near Muridke. Reportedly, a 10th class student, Rana Daud son of Markzi Anjuman Tajiran Muridke Chairman Rana Ansar Mehmood, was going to Canal Park with his class fellow Usman alias Shani on a motorcycle when a Gujranwala-bound speeding car hit them, injuring them seriously.
Both the friends died on their way to hospital. The police arrested the driver and took the car

LAHORE: The 1st National Women Road Cycling Championship will be held on February 13 at Kasur. Secretary Pakistan Cycling Federation Idris Haider Khawaja said that for the promotion of cycling among women, the PCF is organising the championship with the collaboration of District Sports Committee Kasur.
This is a national level cycling event and the affiliated units of the PCF including Army, Railways, Wapda, Sui Southern Gas Company and all the four provinces including FATA will

MURIDKE - A youth and an elderly man were killed in separate road accidents in Muridke.
In the first accident, a tractor-trailer crushed five-year-old Noshki near Muridke Railway Station when she was playing in a street.
Muridke police are conducting raids to arrest the driver who left the scene after the incident. In the second accident, a 60-year-old man was killed after falling down from a speedy motorcycle-rickshaw while going to Manoonabad from Muridke.
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LAHORE - Severe traffic jams were witnessed on all adjoining roads to the Main Circular Road due to the fire, which erupted at the Shah Alam Market on Monday. Commuters were irked by the situation, which also affected the Walled City. Congested roads in the Walled City disrupted traffic at various points, as rescuers also faced problems in reaching the spot.
Traffic jams were reportedly caused by people who stopped their vehicles in order to catch a glimpse of the blaze. People

MIRPURKHAS - Nine passengers were killed, while 30 others including women and children were seriously injured in road accident when a speedy passenger bus fell in deep ditch at Babo stop on late night of Sunday. Police said that passenger bus was going to Diplo from Mithi and suddenly it fell in deep ditch.
Amanullah, Haji Hussain Rind, Suleman, Bhaghchand, Kewal, Ashok, Punhooo and two unknown persons died on the spot, while more then 30 passengers including women and children

GUJRANWALA - Myopic approach by the administration and police along with ruthless attitude of political and religious groups has left the commuters in an awful condition on GT Road as everyone blocks this central road to record protests.
Kashmir Solidarity Day, although a national day to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir but none of the local political or religious groups could express solidarity and more than a dozen large and small processions blocked the city.