Author: Sohail Ahmad (Sohail Ahmad)

LAHORE: Every district of Punjab is to have its own Parks and Horticulture Authority by January 2027, after Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz approved the province-wide rollout and cleared 2,820 technical posts to staff it. The numbers now cover the whole map. Ten district authorities are already functioning, 11 more have been set up and the...

LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority has laid out an avenue of century-old Buddha trees in Bagh-e-Jinnah, giving Lahore’s colonial-era Lawrence Garden a living link to one of the world’s oldest faiths. Buddhists hold the tree sacred. PHA records note that Siddhartha Gautama meditated for seven weeks beneath a tree of the same kind, without...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has switched off the cameras in its own corridors, banning mobile phone videos, photographs and TikTok clips anywhere on its premises. A circular issued by Registrar Abdul Rahim binds everyone who walks through the gates, from court officers and staff to lawyers, police officials, journalists, litigants and visitors. Courtrooms,...

LAHORE: A gym trainer who used to tell friends that good health was a greater blessing than money was found shot dead beside his wife at their Ichhra home on Wednesday, leaving two young sons without either parent. Police identified the couple as Rehan Latif and his wife, Mahwish, of Shakir Road. Their initial finding...

LAHORE: A motorcycle with more than a hundred unpaid e-challans against it has been caught on Walton Road, and its rider has been fined Rs190,000. Patrolling officers Ghulam Arabi and Tanveer stopped the motorcycle and checked its record. They found 113 e-challans. The rider had been caught 89 times without a helmet and 24 times...

LAHORE: For three days in late September, more than 1,000 scholars from 37 countries met at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) for AAS-in-Asia 2026. It was the first time the Association for Asian Studies had brought its Asia conference to Pakistan. The US Consulate General in Lahore calls it the largest international event...

LAHORE: Seventy-five artists have shown their work at “The Rivers Remember”, an exhibition in Lahore held to raise awareness about flood relief. The US Consul General in Lahore, Stetson Sanders, attended and said his country would keep standing with Pakistanis hit by floods. The exhibition looked at the link between Pakistan’s rivers and the people...

LAHORE: The head of Lahore’s horticulture agency has told his officers to finish beautification work on time. Officials did not say what that time is. Managing Director Ahmad Usman Javed visited several parts of the city on September 30. He looked at construction, beautification and planting work at Nadira Begum’s Tomb, Kamahan Chowk, an underpass...

LAHORE: A doctoral thesis on the Naat poetry of Lala Sahrai has been completed at Lahore Leads University. For a poet who had to give up his own schooling as a boy, it is a fitting tribute. The thesis was written by PhD scholar Zakaullah under Dr Muhammad Attaullah, head of the university’s Urdu department....