A Voice of the Unheard Thursday, September 10, 2026
LAHORE: The funeral prayer for mountaineer Dr Asma Mushtaq, who died on Spantik Peak, has been offered in Lahore, closing a recovery operation that lasted nearly three weeks in some of the most difficult terrain in the Karakoram. Dr Asma summited Spantik on August 20 and died at an altitude of 6,400 metres during her...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has set aside a Rs700,000 surety bond and a travel restriction imposed on a mother granted interim custody of her infant son, holding that disproportionate curbs on the movement of a child and its mother are inconsistent with constitutional freedoms. Justice Asad Ali Bajwa delivered a 10-page written judgment...
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued notices and sought a reply on a miscellaneous application filed by actor Meesha Shafi seeking permission to deposit Rs5 million in cash as surety. A two-member bench headed by Justice Ahmad Nadeem Arshad heard the miscellaneous application. The bench had earlier directed Meesha Shafi to deposit Rs2.5...
WASA ran a 24-hour control room, more than 200 cameras and 21 relief camps this season. Water still stood at over 130 points across the city on the worst day, and four roads caved in. The gap is no longer about response speed. It is about what lies under the asphalt. One storm, twenty gauges:...
LAHORE: Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML) President Khalid Masood Sindhu has said the decision of the Court of Arbitration has shattered India’s attempt to unilaterally suspend the Indus Waters Treaty, making it clear that the agreement remains fully operational and that India has no legal grounds to withdraw from its obligations. According to an official...
MULTAN: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader, former member of the Provincial Assembly and former provincial minister of Punjab, Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi, has passed away. His funeral prayers will be offered on 1 September. Expressions of sorrow have been made by political and social circles over the death of Haji Ehsanuddin Qureshi. The funeral prayers of the...
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has replaced the entire senior tier of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences following the inquiry into the fire that killed 14 newborn babies, with Dr Muhammad Salman formally assuming charge as Executive Director of the country’s largest public-sector hospital. Separate notifications issued by the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the Pakistan Men’s Under-19 squad for the tour of England, where the team will play one Youth Test and four one-day matches from September 2 to 16. Farhan Yousaf will lead the Pakistan Under-19 team on the England tour. Wicketkeeper Abdul Qadir, all-rounders Jahangir Bilal, Hayam Khan...
LAHORE: At least four people were killed and several others sustained injuries on Tuesday after a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a deep ravine near the Lower Barrian area of Murree, according to initial reports from rescue officials. Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif expressed deep grief and sorrow over the...
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami has begun moving its anti-petroleum levy protest out of Lahore and into other cities, with Emir Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman announcing that camps have already opened in Hyderabad and that a sit-in will begin in Balochistan on August 29. Addressing participants at the Lahore protest site on Monday, the JI chief said the party had...