ISLAMABAD: The ministry of information and broadcasting has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi for the first ‘National Entertainment Awards’ of the country. The signing ceremony was held in Islamabad on Wednesday during which Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry was also present. Addressing the media after inking the MoU, … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday reserved its verdict on the petition of a visually-impaired female school teacher, Amna Arshad, seeking her transfer for over a year under wedlock policy. Read more: LHC reserves verdict on petitions against Ravi Riverfront project Justice Tariq Saleem conducted the hearing today while the petitioner’s husband Abdullah Haseeb, … Read more
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) President and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif criticised the government on rising inflation and said it should quit instead of playing with the nation’s future by imposing a mini-budget. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the opposition leader said the trade deficit in December … Read more
With a warning to remain careful in the future, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday accepted written apologies tendered by Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry and Railways Minister Azam Swati for their remarks against the electoral watchdog. Read more: ECP extends duration of door-to-door voter verification campaign Swati and Chaudhry had launched a tirade … Read more
Balochistan has been on high alert after 12 suspected cases of ‘Omicron variant’ of SARS-CoV2 were found in the Kalat district of the province. Read more: NIH confirms Pakistan’s first Omicron case after analysing samples The Kalat administration asked all 12 suspected patients to move into quarantine, confirmed Bol News on Wednesday. The provincial government … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the petitions of farmers challenging the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project (RRUDP). The LHC’s bench comprising Justice Shahid Karim heard the petitions against the RRUDP filed by Advocate Sheraz Zaka and others on behalf of the farmers. The applicants had challenged coercion in … Read more
LAHORE: In an effort to curb smog, the Punjab government on Tuesday informed the Lahore High Court (LHC) that the winter vacations in schools across the province have been divided into two phases. A single-member bench comprising Justice Shahid Karim heard the petitions against the Punjab government’s failure to take significant measures to curb smog. … Read more
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday summoned Sahiwal District Police Officer (DPO) for allegedly pressurising a key witness in the infamous 2019 Sahiwal encounter to resile from his statement which resulted in the acquittal of all six Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel. The two-member bench of LHC headed by Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz conducted … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has given the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) six months to complete all under-construction schools in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) damaged or razed in the 2005 earthquake. A three-member bench of the top court headed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Gulzar Ahmed presided over the case on Tuesday. An earthquake of … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML) Vice President Maryam Nawaz said the failure of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the local government elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) is a reflection of its poor performance. Maryam Nawaz appeared before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday to attend the hearing of her appeals against conviction in the Avenfield reference. … Read more
KARACHI: All 17 casualties of the Shershah gas explosion in Karachi including the father of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Alamgir Khan were laid to rest in different graveyards of the city on Monday. The private bank’s cashier Sardar Amir and security guard Zeeshan Afridi, who hailed from Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) also died in … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) decided on Monday to open the ‘sealed affidavit’ of former chief justice of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Rana Shamim couriered from London in the presence of the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) in the next proceeding. IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah heard the contempt of court case against the ex-chief justice … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday expressed confidence that the extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) will act as an impetus for the member states to assist Afghanistan. The premier held separate meetings with the OIC Secretary General Hussein Ibrahim Taha and foreign ministers of member countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday called OIC’s decision to establish a fund for Afghanistan for the revival of its banking system a ‘great success’ of the moot. A day after the 17th Extraordinary Session of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, the foreign minister said Allah had bestowed Pakistan … Read more
KARACHI: The Green Line bus rapid transit project is part of a grand scheme to give the city of Karachi a decent mass transit service. The project, launched in 2016 when the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ruled in the centre, was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister Imran Khan on Dec 10. However, a parallel ‘launch’ was … Read more
ISLAMABAD: With the aim to create a capital without unnecessary waste, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with a private company has built the country’s first ever “eco-friendly” one-kilometre plastic road in Islamabad. CDA Chairperson Amer Ali Ahmed while speaking to Bol News said that the capital city produced around 700 tonnes of waste including 150 … Read more
KARACHI: With a promise to change the way in which the people of Karachi spend their leisure hours, the Sindh government has developed a coastal park at Manora at a cost of Rs650 million to provide ‘affordable’ entertainment to the public. The project has a parking area spread over an acre of land. It has … Read more
QUETTA: Once the restaurants and shops at either side of Mohammad Ali Jinnah Road used to be the preferred hangout of the elite class of Quetta city in the 1950s and ’60s. The distinctive place used to be crowded with well-known social and political families as it used to be a status symbol. The road … Read more
KARACHI: In recent years Karachi has consistently featured amongst the ‘Unhealthy’, ‘Unhealthy for sensitive groups’ or ‘Moderate’ brackets, but never in the ‘Good’ bracket where air quality is concerned. The appalling impact of air pollution coupled with other environmental problems lead to at least 20,000 premature deaths in the country each year — 80 per … Read more
LAHORE: The historic Roshnai Gate, also known as the Gate of Lights, is one of the 13 gates of the Walled City of Lahore. It was the main entry point into Lahore for emperors and nobles during the Mughal era for decades and later during the Sikh Empire. This historic gate’s extended height and width … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Last year the Supreme Court (SC) had banned stone crushing at the Margalla Hills. While the apex court’s orders were largely followed as no stone crushing was being done at the hills, these mountains are still being quarried to excavate soil used for levelling ground for developing new dwellings. Technically, no stone crushing was … Read more
LAHORE: A dumping site of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) is said to be one of the 24 sites that is currently being used as a temporary dumping point for garbage before it is eventually disposed of on the outskirts of Lahore city. The temporary dumping point, which is supposed to be cleared out … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Waste management is turning out to be a serious issue for countries across the globe and it becomes more serious in developing countries with poor waste collection and waste disposal mechanisms. The situation turns even worse when it comes to improper handling of hospital waste which is hazardous to human beings as well as … Read more
LAHORE: Being a woman in Pakistan is like being in a constant state of societal worries. But one might ask why women are facing this? The deep-rooted misogyny and the superiority complex are engraved in men all over the country, it appears. Micromanaging a woman, the way they eat, dress, talk, and generally lead their … Read more
LAHORE: The haphazard and unplanned growth of Lahore has led to a severe crisis of urban mobility, resulting in congestion, vehicular pollution, and road accidents. Compounding the problem of urban mobility, a pitiable public transportation system has severely affected the poor in accessing avenues of education, employment, among others. Notably, the public transport system is … Read more
KARACHI: The city of Karachi is likely to experience an alarming rise in temperature, according to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) report. Even if it establishes a pathway to lower its greenhouse gas emissions, Karachi will witness rising temperatures that are currently categorised as ‘heatwave’. Such extreme weather events that are often … Read more
PESHAWAR: Once seen as a spot troubled by terrorism, Civil Colony Khar is developing into a local hub of technical education thanks to an institute for women established by the federal government in the colony, located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district. Though the Women Vocational Training Centre (VCT) was originally set up in 2016 following … Read more
LAHORE: Sixteen-year-old Asfandyar is the only son of Ghulam Akbar. The teenage boy is the youngest of five siblings and the only son of the family. The pampered boy was never stopped from doing anything he was passionate about and all his demands were reportedly met by his parents and elder sisters, whether those demands … Read more
