Photo screen grab Lahore: The Chief Minister of Punjab has started a campaign to install protective wire guards on motorcycles to protect the citizens from the bloodshed. According to the details, Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz directed traffic police and safety wire guard to be banned and started the safety wire guard campaign in Aaskar…
Karachi: Karachi Airport is facing a constant decrease in passenger load due to which airlines had to cancel several flights. According to sources, more than a dozen flights of various airlines departing from Karachi Airport were canceled on Wednesday, this situation is arising due to low load of passengers on planes during Ramadan. The canceled…
Ahead of Zero Waste Day, marked annually on 30 March since 2022, we looked back at how that simple but heart-rending statement, a child’s plea to protect the East, echoed across the world. Long before activist Greta Thunberg launched the global Fridays for Future school strike movement in 2018, Ms. Cullis-Suzuki’s speech woke up the world…
News reports said that residential buildings in the northern city of Kharkiv had been hit, killing one and injuring 16, quoting the city’s mayor. Four children were wounded, with images posted to social media showing extensive damage and a body visible lying on the floor. The UN’s Denise Brown said that international law must be…
Ms. Keita, who also heads the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUSCO, sounded the alarm over the humanitarian disaster “unfolding before our very eyes”. More than seven million people in the country are displaced, particularly due to the operations of armed groups such as the M23 and the Allied Defense Forces (ADF) across the…
The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of food went to waste. Some 19 per cent of food available to consumers was lost overall at retail, food service, and household levels. That is in addition to around 13 per cent of food lost in the…
Sudan, and Darfur in particular, are facing a humanitarian and security crisis after a war broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), although ethnic conflicts in Darfur date back more than two decades. Fatima*, a resident of the city of El Geneina in West Darfur state, where…
Satellite imagery pointed to at least 53 schools “totally destroyed” since conflict erupted on 7 October 2023 and a near nine per cent increase in attacks on school premises since mid-February, according to a report by the UN Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) and NGOs the Education Cluster and Save The Children. The “high trend of attacks…
Islamabad: Bar associations have demanded a transparent inquiry into the issue of the High Court judges’ letter. A joint statement was issued by Islamabad Bar Council, Islamabad Bar Association and Islamabad High Court Bar Association on the issue of letter of 6 judges of Islamabad High Court regarding interference in judicial affairs to the Supreme…
Islamabad: On the letter written by the High Court Judges, the full court session of the Supreme Court is continuing under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Pakistan. The full court session of the Supreme Court was called by the Chief Justice of Pakistan today, in which the judges of the Supreme Court are…
