LAHORE: Over the past months, the city has been deprived of many cultural icons – due to the government’s apathy – that are vital for the city’s culture and are part of promoting a passive image of Pakistan.

LAHORE: The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) would organise folk dances depicting the culture of Pakistan’s four provinces to celebrate the 63rd Independence Day.

LAHORE: One in five people of the European Union will be Muslims by 2050 whereas Britain, Spain and Holland will have an even higher proportion of Muslims in a shorter amount of time, an investigation by The Telegraph shows.

LAHORE: The Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) remained bullish during the week with a decline in the turnover. The LSE 25-share index gained 45.75 points to close at 2,359.84 points as against its opening at 2,314.09 points. The volume of the market this Friday remained at 10.79 million shares, which was around 0.72 million shares lower[…]

LAHORE: Gowalmandi Food Street that had been contributing to promote the soft image of the country, particularly of Lahore, all over the world during the last one decade or so, finally fell prey to the culture of ‘political intolerance’ on Thursday.

LAHORE (August 09 2009): Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) sealed the head office of Zarco Money Exchange Company on Saturday for alleged illegal transfer of Rs 45 billion from the country and also arrested its acting Chief Operating Officer of the company. It may be noted that the owner of the Zarco Exchange, Lakht-e-Hussain, has been[…]

LAHORE: India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), is behind the recent terrorist activities in Punjab, Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez said, adding various American and Western organisations were trying to create “an Islamic brigade” in Pakistan, a private TV reported on Thursday. At a meeting of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry,[…]

LAHORE: The Clinton Foundation will create a solar park to generate more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity close to India’s border with Pakistan, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. Gujarat state’s energy minister Saurabh Patel told the paper that foundation officials had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build the world’s largest solar power station[…]

LAHORE: Rachna Industrial Park, established on the Lahore-Sheikhupura road, will have its own five to 25-megawatt power plant which will produce low-cost electricity from waste and meet its entire energy needs.

LAHORE: A document supposedly detailing flaws of the local government system, circulated by the Punjab government among the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members, has failed to pinpoint any specific shortcomings in the law the provincial government wants changed.