A Voice of the Unheard Saturday, October 10, 2026
LAHORE: The Government of Punjab has taken an in-principle decision to include artificial intelligence as a compulsory subject in government schools across the province, in the most significant change to the public-sector curriculum in years. Separately, the School Education Department has issued a curriculum for teaching social skills to students. According to officials, the purpose...
LAHORE: The Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department of Punjab has approved the constitution of a Technical Working Group to review and draft standard operating procedures for nursery and neonatology setups across every public-sector, teaching and tertiary care hospital in the province. According to the notification issued by the department, Professor Dr Masood Sadiq, Vice...
LAHORE: A video circulating on social media purporting to show a boy leaping into a lion’s enclosure at Lahore Zoo has turned out to be fake and edited. According to the Lahore Zoo administration, the boundary shown in the viral video is different from the actual boundary of the zoo, making it clear that the...
LAHORE: A significant decline in motorcycle theft has been recorded in the city this year, with police records showing a 51 percent reduction in incidents during the first seven months of the year compared with the same period last year. According to police records, 6,923 motorcycles were stolen in Lahore during the first seven months...
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami’s protest sit-in at Charing Cross on Mall Road entered its fourteenth day, though participation was visibly lower than on previous days and protest activity appeared more limited. The dharna has kept Faisal Chowk closed to traffic from both directions. An alternative route has been provided for the movement of citizens via the service...
LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has announced a nationwide strike on September 3, declaring that the people of Pakistan are facing severe hardship, that the government will have to provide relief, and that the party’s movement will not now be halted. Addressing a press conference, Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman said sit-ins are...
LAHORE: Citizens have reacted sharply to the marginal reduction in petroleum product prices, dismissing the government’s announcement as relief in name only and describing it as a joke at the public’s expense. Residents said the pattern is unmistakable: when the government raises prices, it does so in rupees, but when it reduces them, the cut...
LAHORE: Eighty-three roadside water tanks and eight main underground water tanks have been completed across 51 cities under the Punjab Development Programme (PDP), Local Government Minister Zeeshan Rafique said while chairing a review meeting at the Civil Secretariat, according to an official statement. Municipal Officers Infrastructure (MOI) and Assistant Project Directors (APD) from across the...
LAHORE: Local Government Minister Zeeshan Rafique visited Nankana Sahib to inspect the sanitation situation on the directive of Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, according to an official statement issued by the Local Government Department. The Chief Minister’s Focal Person for Suthra Punjab, Asim Mahmood, accompanied the provincial minister during the visit. In the outlying settlements...
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to constitute a Technical Task Force to prevent fire incidents at government teaching hospitals and to strengthen emergency response, according to an official statement issued after a high-level meeting chaired by Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique at the Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department. The meeting was attended...