Customs take effective measures to foil smuggling bids at Sialkot Airport on December 5, 2016 SIALKOT: Collector Customs Ahmad Raza Khan’s special measures to curb currency and gold smuggling attempts from the Sialkot International Airport have been lauded. These measures include deployment of extra staff at arrival and departure lounges, VIP lounges, luggage checking and scanning, body searches of suspected passengers and checks at the canteen. Besides that, […]
Top 10 fastest growing cities since 2007 on December 2, 2016GENEVA: A Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny – The World Economic Forum (WEF) – revealed the fastest growing cities of the world on Friday. The WEF, using the United Nations (UN) population count, unveiled the top 10 fastest growing cities in the world – by comparing the population count of 2007. Following is the […]
Trumps triumph dwarfs Hilarys political experience on November 9, 2016Following is a short overview of Hillary Clinton’s political experience and Donald Trump’spolitical affiliations: Hilary Clinton became the First Lady of Arkansas during then-Governor Bill Clinton’s – her husband – tenure from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992, and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She […]
FCCU holds lecture on macro-photography on November 7, 2016LAHORE: Fakhir Shaheen – a senior photographer – gave a lecture to the students of the Forman Christian College University (FCCU) on Monday – an initiative of Forman Photography Society (FPS) President Saad Hotiana. The lecture was aimed at helping students understand the basics of ‘macro-photography’ – which is targeted at picturing things unseen to […]
Smog and its real culprit on November 4, 2016Lahore has recently been taken over by a ‘mystical fog’ – the smog. It is created when nitrogen oxides released from the car exhausts, coal power plants and factory emissions reacts with sunlight with at least one volatile organic compound (VOC) in the atmosphere. These VOCs are released from gasoline, paints and many cleaning solvents. […]
Kaira shocked over PTIs decision to sit the session out on October 4, 2016ISLAMABAD: Announcing that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would participation in today’s joint session of parliament, Party leader Qamar Zaman Kaira on Tuesday said he was unable to comprehend why the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had decided to sit this meeting out. “Nawaz Sharif was the prime minister [for the PTI] in the […]
Locals confront anti-polio team, deny vaccination on September 29, 2016 KILLA SAIFULLAH, BALOCHISTAN: In a bid to completely eradicate Polio from the country, Pakistan launched an anti-Polio drive that faced resistance from some citizens. An anti-Polio campaign’s team faced rejections from a few Pashtun areas of Balochistan like Killa Saifullah. The highly religious people of Killa Saifullah had been given false information by their […]
Imran, Qadri lambaste PML-Ns corrupt govt on September 9, 2016 ISLAMABAD: In a bizarre turn of events, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chairman Tahirul Qadri and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday lashed out against the corrupt federal government. – ‘Imran Khan’s accusations’ – Imran khan said that the Raiwind march will definitely take place before the Islamic month of Muharram. While talking […]
National Action Plan: All fur coat and no knickers? on August 16, 2016Since the entire world suffers from terrorism, security measures have been enhanced to cope with this problem. Pakistan’s largest coordinated state retaliation, following the Peshawar school attack on December 16, helped emerge the National Action Plan – established by the government in January 2015 to eliminate terrorism and to support the anti-terrorist drive. – ‘So […]