A Voice of the Unheard Monday, September 7, 2026
LAHORE: Local tomato rose Rs40 a kilogram and onions Rs30 on Sunday’s official rate list, the sharpest pair of moves on a vegetable sheet that has now spent a full week without settling, while every line in the poultry column stayed exactly where Friday’s notification left it. The daily notification issued by the Market Committee,...
LAHORE: Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has said Pakistan will not be allowed to return to its cycle of economic boom and bust, arguing that mobilising private capital is essential to growth. Addressing an event, Aurangzeb said promoting investment through public-private partnerships and privatisation is achievable, and that the government is pursuing a structural reform...
LAHORE: Weekly inflation in Pakistan rose by 0.65 per cent, driven by increases in petrol and a sharp jump in onion prices, according to the Sensitive Price Indicator released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. The bureau recorded the overall year-on-year rate at 8.35 per cent. Onions were the dominant contributor, rising 26.30 per cent...
LAHORE: Chicken got cheaper for the first time this week and onions fell a further Rs15 on Friday, but okra, brinjal and bitter gourd all pushed higher on a vegetable sheet that is still refusing to settle. The daily notification issued by the Market Committee, Lahore, under the Food Safety and Consumer Protection Department, cut...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Thursday inaugurated an expanded mobile veterinary fleet intended to deliver treatment and diagnostics to livestock farmers in rural Punjab, taking the number of functional mobile veterinary hospitals in the province to 262. According to an official statement, the Chief Minister inspected a mobile veterinary dispensary, laboratory and X-ray...
LAHORE: The largest exhibition of Pakistan’s plastic, printing and packaging industry opened in Lahore on Thursday, with over 650 companies from more than 30 countries taking part in a three-day event that runs until September 5. Provincial Minister for Industries and Commerce Chaudhry Shafay Hussain inaugurated “3P Pakistan 2026”, organised by FAKT Exhibitions (Pvt) Ltd,...
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority has collected Rs54.8 billion in the first two months of the current fiscal year, its highest-ever collection for the period and an increase of Rs11.5 billion over the same two months a year earlier. According to an official statement issued by the authority on Wednesday, the figure compares with Rs43.3...
LAHORE: Onions and garlic gave Lahore’s kitchens some relief on Thursday, but okra climbed Rs40 in a single session and mango was back on the official sheet a day after the district administration had written the season off. The daily notification issued by the Market Committee, Lahore, under the Food Safety and Consumer Protection Department,...
LAHORE: Lahore households faced a broadly costlier bazaar on Wednesday, with poultry, staples and cooking fuel all under pressure and bullion holding near record territory. Onions climbed Rs30 a kilogram overnight and silver added Rs335 a tola as Lahore households faced a broadly costlier bazaar on Wednesday, with poultry, staples and cooking fuel all under...
LAHORE: Motorists across Lahore are paying more at the pump from midnight Tuesday after the federal government notified a fresh increase in petroleum prices, the third upward revision affecting the city inside a single week. According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division), the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority revised ex-depot...