ISLAMABAD: The World Heritage Committee at its meeting which concluded in Manama on Wednesday decided to not place the Shalamar Gardens and Fort, Lahore, on the list of World Heritage in Danger...
The delegation included managing director of the Punjab Mass Transit Authority Sibtain Fazal Halim and officials from Punjab’s archaeology department as well as engineering department of the Lahore Development Authority...
LAHORE: Threatening to strike off Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens off the World Heritage Site list, civil society activists quoted the World Heritage Committee (WHC) as saying that the Orange Line Metro Train project will “irreversibly compromise the authenticity and integrity of the properties and is a potential threat to its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV)”...
The committee should request the state party to immediately stop...
LAHORE: The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project is likely to affect view of two major monuments of the city — Chauburji and Shalamar Gardens...
According to the plan, executing agencies Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency will provide a bend to the elevated track to the right just before Chauburji Quarters on Multan Road (if coming from Yatim Khana Chowk) and then bring it back...
LAHORE: Various civil society organisations will hold a protest in front of the Shalamar Gardens on Sunday (today) at 3pm in an ongoing bid to press the government to change route of the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project and save historical monuments...
According to a press release issued by the organisations on Saturday, social and rights activists, individuals and groups will gather at Shalamar intersection and protest against...
Serious concerns expressed recently by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) show the Punjab government did not take it on board prior to launching development project/scheme — particularly at the stretch passing along the Shalamar Gardens that is on the list of world heritage list...
The issue regarding possible danger to some protected/heritage sites came into limelight after construction/civil...
LAHORE: Responding to a Unesco letter that expressed its concern at passing of elevated Orange Line track along the Shalamar Gardens and sought construction in front of the monument to be stopped, the Punjab government has allayed apprehensions of the organisation...
“Shalamar Gardens, located on GT Road, is one of the monuments of Pakistan which is included in the World Heritage List...
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and its subsidiary, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (Tepa), have decided to construct the track of the Orange Line metro train away from Chauburji and Shalamar Gardens in order to save these historical/heritage sites from environmental impacts, maintaining their view clear as it is at present...
75km long section from Jain Mandir to Lakshmi via GPO Chowk, has been...
LAHORE: The Unesco’s World Heritage Committee has urged the Punjab government to immediately suspend any further work on the Orange Line Metro Train along the Shalamar Gardens and identify an alternative location for this section of the projectThe committee in its 40th meeting in Istanbul has issued a “draft decision”, urging “the State Party to immediately suspend any further work associated with the Shalamar Gardens of the Orange Line Metro...
LAHORE: The Punjab government is ignoring requests by the Unesco to facilitate the UN mission to investigate threats posed to Shalamar Gardens, a heritage site, due to works undertaken for the construction of Orange Line Metro Train...
”The press release claimed that the Orange Line Project could result in a serious irreversible damage to Shalamar Gardens and the project should be stopped in the vicinity of Shalamar Gardens till...
LAHORE: A team of the City District Government of Lahore on Monday raided the Shalamar Gardens Parking Stand over a public complaint against overcharging on parking fee, held the contractor and his two workers for the crime and handed them over to police...
“All non-functional taps in the parks have also been replaced with new ones to avoid leakage of water,” the spokesman said, adding that the PHA staff had also been asked to ensure...
ISLAMABAD: The World Heritage Committee which is scheduled to meet at Manama in Bahrain on June 24 is set to add the Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens to its list of World Heritage in Danger, according to the meeting’s agenda...
A joint team from the World Heritage Centre (WHC) and ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission visited the Shalamar Gardens in April this year after the Supreme Court’s decision which gave the opinion that the...
Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) data showed that international tourists have more than tripled since 2013 to 1...
NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July 2013, reportedly clutching her mobile phone...
Sato covered Tokyo assembly elections for the broadcaster in June 2013 and an upper-house vote for the national parliament the following month...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan rejected on Wednesday Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s claim that the 2013 general elections were systematically manipulated or influenced by design...
Fafen also accepted its mistake and issued a clarification on May 14, 2013, and never repeated the claim in its final report on the general elections...
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Ombudsman’s Secretariat has taken notice of the refusal by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide record pertaining to ballot papers printed for 2013 general elections to an applicant, observing that it was not justified and amounted to a violation of spirit of the Freedom of Information Ordinance (FIO) 2002...
2013 by the federal Ombudsman’s institutional reforms act, 2013,” the communiqué sent to...