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  • Nathia Gali and its host of issues

    LAHORE: People living in Nathia Gali (Ayubia National Park) are confronted with a host of issues from deforestation to solid waste management and from human-leopard conflict to impact of communities on the forest...

    Talking to journalists from Lahore and Karachi, who the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan took to the area, community members in a village, Namli Maira, near Donga Gali said the WWF-Pakistan helped them with its...

  • This way to Qawwal Gali

    KARACHI: On the surface, you don’t notice anything different, just a few back lanes in Garden West badly in need of maintenance...

    Yes, we are in the place better known as Qawwal Gali, where the oldest qawwal gharanas reside...

  • Gali-i-Dastoor symbolises Pakistan’s struggle for democracy

    ISLAMABAD: The Senate recently revamped a corridor on the first floor of Parliament House, by the Senate chairman’s office, and transformed it into Gali-i-Dastoor or Constitution Lane...

    As an attempt to raise awareness about these struggles, Mr Rabbani said, the Senate had come up with the idea of Gali-i-Dastoor...

  • Sindh govt issues flash-flood warning for lower, urban parts of Sindh

    The Sindh government on Tuesday issued a weather warning, anticipating heavy rains later this week, in which it directed all district disaster management authorities, commissioners and deputy commissioners to ensure that all precautionary measures are taken to avoid any untoward situation as well adopt an effective response mechanism, including issuing an early warning for flash floods...

    The PMD had intimated, "A strong monsoon...

  • PTI challenges Sindh’s accountability law in Sindh High Court

    KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Tuesday moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) against a new provincial law that repeals the applicability of the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO), better known as the NAB Ordinance, in the province...

    The SHC on Friday directed the Sindh and federal governments to respond to the constitutional petitions filed by the two opposition parties against the new provincial law repealing the...

  • Sindh CM wants child protection units set up in women police stations across Sindh

    KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday ordered that child protection units (CPUs) be established in all women police stations with the responsibility to deal child abuse cases...

    The meeting was attended by provincial ministers Sohail Anwar Siyal and Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, Chief Secretary Rizwan Memon, Sindh IG AD Khowaja, retired Justice Nasir Aslam Zahid, principal secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, education...

  • Sindh Assembly raises alarm over kidnapping, forced conversion of Hindu girls in Sindh

    KARACHI: The issue of kidnapping and forced conversion of Hindu girls in various districts of the province was raised in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday when opposition Grand Democratic Alliance’s Nand Kumar filed a private resolution seeking protection of the girls of the minority community...

    Mr Kumar’s resolution reads: “This house resolves that [the] provincial government takes notice of recent surge of kidnapping of Hindu girls...

  • Sindh cabinet urges PM to convene CCI meeting to discuss Sindh’s issues

    KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet has urged Prime Minister Imran Khan to convene the meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) to discuss outstanding issues of the provincial government...

    Murad orders police to rid the city of drug peddlers, smugglers; BRTS fare structure approvedEnergy Minister Imtiaz Shaikh pointed out that the federal government was reluctant to approve the alternative energy projects of Sindh and was creating...

  • Sindh governor holds out olive branch to Sindh govt

    HYDERABAD: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Tuesday invited the Sindh government to jointly work with the federation for the sake of development in the province...

    “I invite the Sindh government again to work together with us in order to redress people’s grievances,” he said, while speaking to reporters during his visit to the local office of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) at Autobhan Road...

  • Asad Umar rebuffs Sindh CM's letter, affirms commitment to Sindh's development

    Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Sunday hit back at Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah over his letter complaining about alleged bias in Sindh's development and affirmed the federal government’s commitment to development projects in Sindh...

    The chief minister had urged Prime Minister Imran Khan in a strongly worded letter on Saturday to reconsider the proposed Public Sector Development...

  • Schools in Sindh to open from Aug 23: Sindh education minister

    Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah said on Tuesday that schools across the province will open from August 23 (Monday)...

    The Sindh government had closed schools across the province on July 24 due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases although it had said that exams would take place according to schedule...

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