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  • Man held for ‘defrauding’ ETO

    ISLAMABAD: A man was arrested on the charge of defrauding the excise and taxation office (ETO) by submitting bogus payment receipts for the registration of vehicles...

    Sources in the ETO told Dawn that during the last a couple of months scores of fee receipts submitted for the registration of vehicles were found bogus
  • Portfolio: Lahore Lahore hai

    Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era...

    During the 19th century, the British colonial painters such as James Duffield Hardinge (1798-1863), Henry Ambrose Oldfield (1822-1871), and Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1836-1910) became obsessed with the architecture, street culture, couture and diversity of professions, which first they depicted in...
  • City Diary: Beautification of Lahore to reflect culture, history and tradition

    The divisional administration’s policy to involve the National College of Arts (NCA), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Parks and Horticulture Authority and others in planning, designing and executing small pilot schemes for the city’s beautification in view of its natural, cultural, heritage and historical values is a right step in the right direction...

    Currently, various spots...
  • Conservation of Lahore

    CITIES are complicated, organic entities, and changes to their makeup must never be conceived of in broad brushstrokes; it is better to put plans on hold until all the potential consequences of their execution can be assessed in detail...

    Unfortunately, it would appear that the administrators of Lahore, the historical timeline of which spans several centuries, have not even reached this rudimentary level of reasoning
  • Fantastic Five win Lahore leg of Neymar Jr’s Five qualifiers

    LAHORE: After a series of pulsating matches, Fantastic Five outwitted their rivals to win the Lahore leg of the Red Bull Neymar Jr’s Five qualifiers on Sunday...

    The champions from Lahore join Steel Town FC 2 from Karachi in a three-way battle for the national champion’s title; the two teams are going to compete with the winners from Islamabad leg of the qualifiers in a play-off — national finals will take place in April
  • Public warned of possible dengue spread in Lahore

    LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) has warned the public to be watchful as three months (September to November) are vulnerable to possible dengue spread in the provincial metropolis...

    “The weather in these months enables the mosquitoes to bread
  • Brain-eating amoeba claims life in Lahore

    LAHORE: After causing havoc across Karachi, the brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria) now reaches Lahore as a death by the deadly disease was officially confirmed here on Friday...

    The infection killed a 30-year-old account officer, Azhar Abbas of Farooq Colony, Walton Road
  • Police find ‘missing’ Chinese engineer in Lahore mosque

    SAHIWAL: The Chinese engineer who had “gone missing” during a visit to Pakpattan to see his in-laws last Friday, was traced and taken in custody by police from a mosque in Lahore, where he was doing a six-day ‘chilla’ – a spiritual practice of penance and solitude – under a religious organisation...

    His “recovery” was made after 70-hour hectic police efforts, involving GPS tracking and leg work
  • 4-storey factory collapses in Lahore

    LAHORE: At least 18 people were killed and over 70 injured on Wednesday evening when a four-storey factory collapsed in the Sundar industrial area...

    District Coordination Officer retired Capt Mohammad Usman told reporters that the death toll might rise because over 250 factory workers, including children and women, were feared trapped under the debris
  • At least 25 dead as rescuers scrabble through Lahore factory rubble

    LAHORE: Rescuers have pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of a collapsed factory and are searching for dozens of others believed still trapped in a disaster that has killed at least 25 labourers, officials said on Thursday...

    Soldiers and rescuers in Lahore were carefully cutting through steel and using cranes to lift the debris of the building in a bid to find people still alive, with survivors saying that many of the workers...
  • Couple from Lahore arrested in Gilgit

    GILGIT: Police registered a case here on Tuesday against a married couple for having been involved in “immoral activities” at a public place...

    Police arrested the young man and woman — both from Lahore — near a bus station on Monday night
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