Barrackpore Talpukur Red Light Area Lahore

Calls to protect sex workers as Mumbai’s red-light industry goes underground

MUMBAI: Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai’s commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts to ensure sex workers’ lives are not put at risk...

The move from the traditional red-light district has come as industries including financial services moved north due to soaring real-estate prices but raised fears about protecting sex...

How technology killed historic red-light district

LAHORE: Pakistan’s oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and prostitutes — Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of vibrant Lahore...

Dozens of escort services with online bookings claim to serve thousands of clients in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — some even in Dubai and Singapore...

Green or red light: China virus app is ticket to everywhere

A green light lets you in anywhere...

A yellow light could send you into home confinement...

Police make formal request for extension in Red Zone area in capital

ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Monday formally made a request to the local administration to extend the Red Zone from Ataturk Avenue to Faisal Avenue upto Zero Point in a move to formalise a decision which the Ministry of Interior had already taken a couple of days back in the wake of the PTI’s long march...

The letter states that the senior superintendent of police (operations) in a recent meeting had recommended extension in the...

Red Zone on red alert ahead of SC verdict

ISLAMABAD: Police, Rangers and Frontier Constabulary personnel will be deployed in and around the Red Zone for security and to maintain the peace on Thursday, when the Supreme Court is to announce its judgement in the Panama Papers case...

Senior police officials met at the Central Police Office to review the arrangements, and it was decided that the Red Zone would be put on ‘red alert’ on Thursday, officials told Dawn...

Light The Night lights up Lahore races in record time

LAHORE: Four-year-old bay filly Light The Night virtually lit the Racecourse while powering to victory in the feature event in a record fastest time during the Lahore Summer Meeting here on Sunday...

Trained by Haji Abid Hussain, Light The Night was steered by A...

'Politics can wait': Ch Nisar postpones press conference in light of Lahore blast

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday postponed his much-awaited press conference after a suspected terror attack in Lahore killed at least 25...

I would like for you all to keep those at bay and focus on the matter at hand — the Lahore blast...

Swvl to pause daily rides in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad from tomorrow in light of 'global economic downturn'

Popular bus-sharing service Swvl announced on Thursday that it would be "pausing" daily rides within Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Faisalabad from Friday (June 3) "in light of the global economic downturn"...

Punjab govt asks PTI to take ‘extra precautions’ at Lahore rally today in light of ‘security threats’

The Punjab Home Department on Wednesday asked the PTI leaders in Lahore to take “extra precaution” in view of party’s rally in Lahore today, saying such public gatherings in the face of security threats are “not advisable”...

“The leadership of PTI including Chairman PTI is also expected to address the general public/ participants at different places during a rally in Lahore today...

10 killed in explosion in Lahore's Defence area

A powerful explosion in an under-construction building in Lahore's busy Defence Y Block Market left 10 people dead and more than 20 injured on Thursday...

The area where the first blast occurred is a busy locality with several commercial offices and eateries...

Model Anam Tanoli found dead in Lahore's Defence area

A 26-year-old model, Anam Tanoli, was found dead in her home in Lahore's Defence area on Saturday, police said...

Her body was found hanging — in what was suspected to be a suicide by police — and shifted to Lahore General Hospital for post-mortem examination...

Firing reported at arrival area of Lahore airport

One man has been killed while two people have been injured when an unidentified person opened fire at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport on Wednesday...

10 injured in rickshaw blast in Lahore's Chauberji area

At least 10 people have been injured in an explosion that occurred in a rickshaw in Lahore's Chauberji area on Friday, officials said...

'No disease-free area': Summary to Punjab CM estimates 670,800 cases in Lahore alone

An alarming summary presented by the Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department to Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar almost two weeks ago had revealed that "no workplace and residential area of any town is disease-free" in the provincial capital, it emerged on Monday...

Advising against a 'smart lockdown' because all areas in the city had been impacted, the summary said there were an estimated 670,800 coronavirus cases in...

Teenage girl allegedly raped during robbery in Lahore's Gujjarpura area

A teenage girl was allegedly raped during a robbery in Lahore's Gujjarpura area, it emerged on Thursday...

Meanwhile, Punjab IGP Shoaib Dastagir took notice of the incident and directed Lahore CCPO Zulfiqar Hameed to submit a report in this regard...