A Voice of the Unheard Wednesday, September 9, 2026
LAHORE: The city entered its fourth consecutive dry day on Wednesday. Skies were clear, the temperature was a little over 33 degrees Celsius when this update was compiled, and the maximum is again expected around 37 — the fourth day running at that level and the third consecutive session in which the forecast has verified....
LAHORE: A high-level delegation from the Gates Foundation visited the Office of AI Punjab, where the prospects for a long-term partnership in artificial intelligence, technology and development were discussed in detail. The delegation was led by Anita Zaidi, President of the Gates Foundation’s Gender Equality Division, and Kalpana Kochhar, interim President of the Global Policy...
LAHORE: An Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore has granted a 21-day physical remand of PTI leader Hammad Azhar in the Jinnah House attack case. The investigating officer had requested a 60-day physical remand from the court. The court had earlier approved a 20-day physical remand; however, because the final day of a 20-day term would have...
LAHORE: A petition challenging the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2026, passed by the Punjab Assembly, has taken a significant procedural turn at the Lahore High Court after the judge assigned to hear it recused himself. Justice Amjad Pervez declined to hear the petition and returned the file to the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court...
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Pakistan observed Navy Day on Tuesday with wreath-laying ceremonies, prayers for the fallen and a stream of messages from the country’s civil and provincial leadership, marking 61 years since the Pakistan Navy’s raid on the Indian coastal station at Dwarka on the night of 7-8 September 1965. The principal ceremony was held at Naval...
LAHORE: The city reached the top of its forecast range on Tuesday. Skies were clear through the morning, the temperature was already near 33 degrees Celsius by late morning, and the maximum is expected around 37 — the level the weekend outlook had put on Wednesday, arriving a day early. There is no rain in...
LAHORE: The dry spell forecast for Lahore has arrived on schedule. The city woke to clear skies on Monday, with the temperature already near 34 degrees Celsius through the late morning and a maximum expected around 35, and there is no rain in the seven-day outlook. The eighth monsoon spell, which the Provincial Disaster Management...
KARACHI: The 18th edition of ‘Sartyoon Sang’, a three-day exhibition of handicrafts made by rural Sindhi women, concluded on Sunday at Ocean Mall in Clifton after drawing a steady stream of visitors over the weekend. Stalls carried home textiles, baskets, jewellery, dresses, dupattas and shawls, embellished with traditional embroidery and cutwork. The range also included...
LAHORE: The monsoon spell that put Lahore on the Met Office’s urban flooding list for two days is winding down, with Sunday bringing brighter skies, a maximum in the low thirties and a residual chance of showers before a dry and steadily warming week. The Pakistan Meteorological Department had forecast widespread rain across the upper...
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s military said on Sunday that 21 terrorists were killed in a series of engagements across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between 3 and 5 September, in what security officials described as one of the more concentrated stretches of border fighting in recent weeks. According to an official statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the...