A Voice of the Unheard Tuesday, October 6, 2026
LAHORE: Leaders of the Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML) have welcomed Pakistan’s appointment as Secretary General of the Makkah Common Defence Pact for a three-year term, describing it as recognition of the country’s defence capabilities, experience and role in the Muslim world. PMML President Khalid Masood Sindhu and Secretary General Saifullah Qasuri, along with senior...
LAHORE: Lahore motorists who have ignored their traffic challans are about to find the consequences following them into government offices. Under a sweeping new directive issued on Wednesday, citizens with unpaid traffic fines will be denied a range of services at the Excise Department and at Police Khidmat Markaz facilities. The decision comes as part...
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif met newly elected Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Barrister Iftikhar Gilani in Lahore, with the AJK premier crediting Punjab’s ongoing development drive as a template for his own government’s reform push. According to an official statement issued on Sunday, the chief minister congratulated Barrister Gilani on his...
ANKARA/ISLAMABAD: Field Marshal and Chief of Defence Forces Syed Asim Munir has arrived in Türkiye on an official visit, in a trip the military says is aimed at further strengthening defence and strategic cooperation between the two countries. According to the Inter Services Public Relations, the visit is being regarded as significant in the context...
RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has said the government has failed to deliver relief to the public and that a system built on oppression and mafias must be changed, in twin appearances that escalated his party’s nationwide protest campaign. Addressing a public meeting at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi, and separately holding a press...
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has submitted the details of its financial statements to the Election Commission of Pakistan. The party filed audit reports of its accounts along with an affidavit from Barrister Gohar. The Election Commission has sought details of financial statements from all political parties. The filing forms part of an annual statutory...
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution against unannounced load shedding, demanding that both the provincial and federal governments bring an immediate halt to unscheduled power cuts and ensure equal treatment of all consumers in the supply of electricity. The resolution was moved out of turn by treasury member Ahsan Raza Khan and...
LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Commission has recommended that universities across the province launch balanced degree programmes in other important fields rather than concentrating exclusively on computer science and artificial intelligence. According to PHEC, students at universities should be prepared with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in mind. Alongside computer science and AI, attention...
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Azma Bokhari has announced that 39 new fire vehicles have been handed over to 39 tehsils across the province, describing the move as part of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s effort to bring Rescue Services in line with modern requirements. According to an official statement issued on Thursday, the...
ISLAMABAD: Fourteen newborn babies were killed early Wednesday when fire tore through the nursery of the Mother and Child Health ward at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), the federal capital’s largest public hospital, in what has become one of Pakistan’s deadliest hospital fires. Fifteen infants were inside the ward. One survived. By Thursday,...