PESHAWAR: Dwellers of Landi Sarak, Charsadda Road here on Sunday held a demonstration against the Municipal Corporation Peshawar (MCP) for setting up a slaughterhouse inside the populated area and demanded its early shifting to rid them of foul smell and dirt...
Holding banners and placards inscribed with demands for shifting the slaughterhouse, the protesters warned to block the main road if MCP didn’t pay immediate attention towards...
KOHAT: The city’s only slaughterhouse is in a state of disrepair and there is no lighting system there, though the slaughtering of animals is carried out from 11:00pm to the time of morning prayers...
The slaughterhouse has no lighting system and its floor is broken from several places where pools of blood could be seen...
PARIS: Oil prices may have rebounded off 12-year lows struck last month, but any hope for a broader recovery in the market would be misplaced, the IEA said on Tuesday, noting Opec is responsible for the latest glut of supplies on the market...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its monthly report that “it is very hard to see how oil prices can rise significantly in the short term
BEIRUT: The prison north of Damascus was known to detainees as “the slaughterhouse” and in it, as many of 13,000 people were hanged in only four years after a series of sham trials, according to a new report issued by Amnesty International...
They were being taken to the slaughterhouse,” Hamid, a former detainee, told Amnesty...
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) on Wednesday sealed poultry slaughterhouse besides imposing Rs80,000 fine on two food catering services for making food in unhygienic condition and served notices to five marriage halls...
He said that slaughterhouse was sealed as the chickens were slaughtered in unhygienic conditions and they did not have the RCB licence...
SAHIWAL: The divisional administration has given a go-ahead to the EDO Community Development Programme to restart registration of special persons for issuance of “Khidmat Card” (KC) in districts of Sahiwal and Okara...
The Khidmat Card is a cash subsidy scheme announced by the Punjab government for special persons...
TAXILA: Though the Punjab government has introduced the Khidmat Card Programme for the financial assistance of special persons and the poor, students of Government Special Education Centre Taxila have been waiting for their cards for about six months...
However, so far the authorities have ignored the children in the distribution of Khidmat cards...
Speaking at a function arranged to observe the May Day here on Sunday, the MNA also delivered Khidmat Cards among parents working in brick kilns so that they could meet the educational expenses of their children admitted to schools...
Earlier, EDO (Education) Naheed Wasif said at least 769 brick kiln families in the district had been provided Khidmat Cards in the first phase...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday launched the Punjab Khidmat Card Programme for providing interest-free loans, free technical training, rehabilitation and welfare and financial assistance to the special persons by distributing the cards among some of them...
“The Khidmat card has been initiated to make the disabled active and useful members of society,” he said while addressing the function to launch the programme... ...
BAHAWALPUR: The district has taken the lead in Punjab with the establishment of first ‘police e-Khidmat centre’ at a cost of around Rs1 million to provide 13 facilities to the public under one roof...
ISLAMABAD: The government has launched e-Khidmat centres and a web-portal to facilitate builders who have pledged to commence economic activities in the construction sector...
The decision to set up e-Khidmat centres and a web portal was taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan during a meeting of the National Coordination Committee on Housing, Construction and Development (NCCHCD) on Thursday...
KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar said Saturday that the Karachi operation is completely apolitical, adding that it will continue without any discrimination...
Speaking at a seminar organised by the National Defence University at a private hotel in Karachi, the corps commander said, "I assure citizens that our struggle against terrorism will continue unabated...
In absence of any structured attempts to establish such places in Karachi, the chai hangouts in the city have contributed to a new vibrancy, absent for more than a generation...
IN his debut novel Karachi Raj, erstwhile critic Anis Shivani depicts a year’s worth of Karachi life as viewed from the differing perspectives of an American anthropologist and a couple of individuals living in the low-income district of the Basti...
Shivani’s first foray into the realm of fiction intrinsically grapples with an immensely complex topic — the stratified social layers of which Karachi life is composed...
But for the residents of Karachi, the question on everyone’s minds is: will Naya Pakistan also mean a Naya Karachi?By Naya Karachi one does not mean New Karachi, the neighbourhood on the northern tip of the metropolis beyond North Karachi...
By Naya Karachi, one means a revived, clean and crime-free megacity that can be regenerated from the endless urban sprawl that currently exists...