Author : Atif Iqbal

LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated Rs 5.55 billion for infrastructure development in schemes for 440 public buildings (houses and offices) of 12 provincial departments.

THE Punjab Highway Patrol claimed that they provided help to 40,000 road users across the Punjab during the first five months of the current year.

LAHORE: The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has busted a mafia of public officials and contractors, who allegedly made billions of rupees through corruption in the Department of Public Facilities over the last two decades.

LAHORE: Iqbal Town Nazim Sardar Kamil Umar resigned from office on Monday.A no-confidence motion was moved against the town nazim and 24 out of 27 members voted in favour of it. Umar resigned before the voting was conducted, said MNA Malik Afzal Khokhar. He alleged there were corruption charges against the town nazim and he[…]

PUNJAB Chief Secretary Javed Mahmood, Additional Chief Secretary Javed Aslam and provincial secretaries held open courts outside their offices at the Civil Secretariat on Friday and issued orders for addressing the grievances of complainants.

LAHORE Development Authority’s newly posted Director General Omer Rasul has said that he wants to transform the authority into a dynamic service delivery organisation. According to a press release on Sunday, addressing a meeting Omer Rasul said he believed in an open door policy to address issues at all levels by being directly accessible to[…]

LAHORE: The property dealers should demand original computerised national identity card (CNIC) from a new tenant and inform the police about him, besides keeping a complete record and copies of CNICs with them, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Pervez Rathore said on Sunday. He appealed to the general public to cooperate and encourage the policemen,[…]

LAHORE: Economists have questioned the ability of the government to execute projects for social sector development announced in the Federal Budget 2009-10.

LAHORE: Justice Hafiz Tariq Nasim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday reinstated two Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) airhostesses whose services were terminated in 2005 allegedly for being overweight. Samina Abid and Naureen Naz Butt had challenged the orders in separate petitions.

LAHORE: The city markets will remain closed on Saturday (today) to condemn the killing of Mufti Sarfraz Naeemi, Anjuman Tajiran Pakistan Secretary General Abdul Razaq told Daily Times on Friday. He said the traders strongly condemned the brutal killing of Naeemi and had decided to keep the markets closed in protest. The Lahore Chamber of[…]

LAHORE: The cellular phone operators are not willing to accept the government’s offer to increase their SMS rates in order to get relief in the GST and SIM activation charges.

LAHORE: “I saved a human life, but I was neither thanked nor compensated for the damage done to my car. On the contrary, I was fined for damaging an electricity pole,” Nauman, who had an accident in Sector-Z of Defence Housing Authority (DHA), told Daily Times.

DCO Lahore Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta has imposed a ban on discharging the sewage water in the Lahore Canal and warned the housing societies and all the officers to strictly follow the orders. He also directed the Irrigation Department and the respective Town Officers to launch an operation in this regard and strictly check the violators.[…]

CHIEF Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has said that there is a wide scope of cooperation between Pakistan and China in various sectors and the economic future of the former depends on close trade and industrial relations with the latter. He stressed the need for taking China as a role model for development of Pakistan and[…]

LAHORE Development Authority Director General Shahid Mehmood has said that the recruitment of 46 young and qualified officers in the authority will help further improve its image. He was addressing the newly employed assistant directors who joined the LDA here on Monday.

LAHORE – The Punjab government has completely banned commercialisation on 20 roads in LDA residential areas falling in different housing schemes in line with the new commercialisation policy recently notified by the department of housing & urban development and public health engineering.

LAHORE: A doctor allegedly killed his father over a property issue here on Sunday at his Mustafa Town residence in Hanjarwal police precincts. Dr Imran Ahmed gunned down his father Professor Dr Zulfiqar Ahmed (65) at their residence, the police said. According to details, the victim was a professor of Geology at the Bahria University,[…]

LAHORE: Daily Times wishes to clarify a news item printed in the paper on June 4 regarding the Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggesting a medium-term policy package for Pakistan.