Violating traffic rules on the motorway will cause a bigger dent on your pocket now, after the the Ministry of Communications revised the fines for traffic violators.
Speeding will now cost you a fine of Rs1,500 if you’re on a motorcycle and Rs2,500 for a car. Public Service Vehicles, taxis, buses or even Careem and Uber, will have to pay Rs10,000 for speeding. If they drive more than 40km/h over the speed limit, the fines will be even higher.
Violating traffic signals also costs more now. Jumping a red light will result in a fine of Rs 5,000. If you drive through a flashing red light, it’ll cost you Rs2,000 and driving through a flashing yellow light will cost you Rs1,000.
If buses and coaches will have more passengers than the allowed number of people then it will be fined Rs5,000.
Here is the list of some major fines:
Rs,5000 for driving at night without proper lights.
Rs1,500 for not wearing your seatbelt while driving.
Rs500 for using your phone while driving.
Rs1,500 for overtaking where it has been prohibited.
Rs1,000 for driving out of your lane.
Rs3,000 for disobeying stop signs.
Rs5,000 for interfering with an emergency vehicle.
Rs2,500 for driving on the wrong side of the road.
Rs1,000 for following a vehicle too closely or cutting them off too sharply.
Rs750 for driving with your rear screen partially or fully covered.
Iqra Aziz threw a big birthday bash for fiancé Yasir Hussain with all their industry friends in presence. She also publicly displayed her affection by penning a short sweet note for her “Superhero” on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5a5k9sAfmB/
See all the pictures and videos from the event here:
Starting with the birthday boy cutting and eating his own cake.
A selfie with the boys and best buds
How many stars can you spot?
The better-halves
Selfies all around
Yasir loved the party
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A few days back, it was Iqra’s birthday and Yasir also celebrated it with a bang and a unicorn cake.
Ministers, leaders of opposition parties, journalists as well as rights activists have voiced their support for marchers as students across the country take to roads for 2019 edition of the Students’ Solidarity March and press the authorities for better educational facilities.
The marchers insist that the government must ensure the following:
Lift the ban and hold elections for student unions
Abandon privatisation of educational institutes and reverse the recent decision of school and college fee hike
The state should pledge free education for all
No more budget cuts for the Higher Education Commission (HEC) or sacking of educational staff
At least five per cent of the GDP should be allocated for education
Abolish the semester system
Lift the ban on students from participating in political activities
End the intervention of security forces in educational institutions and release all students held captive in the name of national security
Establish committees to investigate incidents of sexual harassment and ensure women are made a part of the setup
All universities should have a library, hostel and provide transport and an internet connection
Modernise education systems according to the modern scientific requirements
Set up schools and colleges in lesser developed areas and increase the quota of students coming from outside main cities
Establish research centres for a transition from fossil fuel energy to renewable energy in public sector universities
Announce April 13 as a national holiday to honour Mashal Khan
The march on Friday was held in over 50 cities across Pakistan, including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Gilgit, parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) and interior Sindh.
Students, labourers, lawyers and rights union members all joined in as thoroughfares flooded with marchers holding banners, placards and red flags. Solidarity was also expressed with members of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) as protests against fee hike continues across the border.
In a tweet, the Progressive Students’ Collective (PSC) shared the final locations for the march.
Rawlakot A) Degree college to Zaheer Chowk 10.30 am B) Poonch University to Main Road 11.00 am
— Progressive Students’ Collective (@PSCollective_) November 29, 2019
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari also lent his support to the marchers.
“The PPP has always supported student unions. The restoration of student unions by SMBB [late former prime minister Benazir Bhutto] was purposely undone to depoliticise society,” he tweeted.
end to privatization of public universities, implementation of sexual harassment legislation, right to student housing & the demilitarization of campuses. The spirit of activism and yearning for peaceful democratic process from a new generation of students is truly inspiring. 2/2
“Today students are marching in the #StudentSolidarityMarch for the restoration of unions, implementation of right to education, end to privatisation of public universities, implementation of sexual harassment legislation, right to student housing & the demilitarisation of campuses. The spirit of activism and yearning for a peaceful democratic process from a new generation of students is truly inspiring [sic].”
Earlier in the day, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhary also came out in support of the restoration of student unions and termed the ban “undemocratic”.
I fully support Restoration of students unions, ban on students unions is anti democratic,we can always ensure that students politics must remain violence free and regulations may be introduced for smooth functioning but ban on students politics amounts to limit future politics
Federal Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari wrote:
Causing polarisation. What is needed is not a ban on Student Unions but clear rules – which Unis shd enforce – so that student unions function effectively as they do in other parts of the world – learning tolerance & accommodation of the other.
Among others who expressed support for student marchers were politicians including PPP’s Farhatullah Babar, former Awami National Party (ANP) parliamentarian Bushra Gohar and journalists, including Mazhar Abbas.
We stand by and with #StudentSolidarityMarch. Ban on unions unacceptable, intimidating presence of uniform on campuses unacceptable, forced occupation of students space by uniform unacceptable, shrinking space for intellectual infrastructure in name of 5G war unacceptable https://t.co/0lovJs2aIO
Earlier, the PSC and other organisations from all over Pakistan had formed the committee (SAC) at a national level to demand the revival of student unions and other issues. Representatives of student organisations from Sindh, Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, KP, AJK and Punjab are part of the SAC.
According to Dawn, over the past three weeks, SAC office bearers have conducted corner meetings in public and private educational institutions to hold the march in their respective areas. They said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had left students dejected and directionless and reduced the higher education budget to almost half, bringing Pakistan into the list of countries that spend very less on education.
Ahead of the march, scores of Pakistani student leaders studying at international universities have also voiced their support for the march.
In an open letter addressed to the government, students have come together under the banner of the Pakistan International Students Alliance (PISA) and registered opposition to the ban on student unions.
In yet another faux pas, Google now says that ‘Lahore’ is the capital of Khalistan — a seperate country that Indian Sikhs seek as their homeland in the Punjab region of eastern Pakistan and western India.
An Indian Twitter user attached the screenshot of the Google search declaring Lahore as the capital of Khalistan state with a blue-saffron flag and a ‘Khanda’ insignia of Sikhism on it.
Indian media went into haywire following the circulation of the images, saying that Google search had “substantiated its accusations on Pakistan for fanning and supporting the separatist movement”.
“The new state created would be called Khalistan in the modern territories of Eastern Pakistan and Western India. Its stated capital would be Lahore, a city where the Sikh empire was commenced by Maharaja Ranjit Singh and ruled for centuries by his descendants,” one of the search results read.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has introduced a smartphone application, “Mera Bacha Alert” to help citizens and concerned departments in the recovery of missing children in the province.
According to reports, the launch event of the application took place at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat where CM Mahmood appreciated the efforts of the Performance Management and Reforms Unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He said that the app would not only help in recovering the missing children but would also discourage dreadful incidents regarding innocent children in the province.
The mobile app is available in the KP citizen’s portal and soon will be added to the Pakistan citizen’s portal.
This application will allow parents to register a report if their child goes missing. They will be able to upload a picture along with the necessary attributes.
The application will auto-generate alerts and SMS
will be sent to the District Police Officer (DPO), Regional Police Officer
(RPO), Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the chief secretary.
Moreover, the details including registration of FIR,
starting of investigation, dispatching of the team, evidence collection and
completion of investigation would also be added to the dashboard of District
Police Officer (DPO)
This application will also help in developing a
directory of all the cases of missing children at the provincial level and can
be monitored by the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary as well.
A Muslim aerospace Engineer from Pakistan, Dr. Sarah Qureshi has developed a pollution free engine for airplanes to help in reducing global warming as well as creating artificial rain.
According to the details, Sarah Qureshi holds a Masters degree in Aerospace Dynamics, as well as a PhD in Aerospace Propulsion from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and her pollution free aeroplane engine has taken all the aerospace industry by storm.
Sarah, in a recent interview said that she has launched a company called “Aero Engine Craft” to make environment friendly airplane engines, with her father, Masood Latif Qureshi who is also a Scientsit and a Physicist.
The engine which she has developed has an idiosyncratic pressure-based condensation system which will help in cooling the water vapours in the airplane’s exhaust.
Moreovert, the water will be on the airplane and can be released as rain if required.
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khan Khan Khosa, hearing the petition challenging Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s extension, has said the court was told that “generals never retire”.
A three member bench of the Supreme Court (SC), headed by CJP Khosa and comprising Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel and Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, on Thursday allowed the federal government to grant a six-month extension to Army chief Gen Bajwa.
In its short order the apex court directed the government to bring necessary legislation within six months’ time. The order, read out by the CJP, ordered the parliament to introduce legislation for appointment of the army chief under Article 243 of the constitution.
He remarked that the court was observing judicial restraint and leaving the matter to the parliament. “We have reviewed several laws including Army Act 1952 and Rule 1954.”
The court had earlier reserved its verdict in this high-profile case and directed the federal government to furnish a fresh summary of the army chief’s extension of services.
“We were told yesterday [Wednesday] that generals never retire,” the top judge remarked as hearing resumed on Thursday.
The attorney general (AG) informed the court that Gen Bajwa has been reappointed under Article 243, to which the CJP remarked that the government had to convince the court that it was legal.
After arguments made by the AG and Gen Bajwa’s counsel Farogh Naseem, the bench stated that a 10-member full court will announce the short order in the afternoon, whereas the detailed verdict would be issued in the evening.
In the meantime, the court granted Gen Bajwa permission to continue working, conditionally. It further instructed the government to prepare a fresh notification, which did not list the tenure of the extension.
The Federal Ministry of Information Technology and Communication has issued a confidential letter to concerned authorities and advised them not to use WhatsApp for official correspondence.
According to reports, hostile Israeli intelligence has installed a stealth spyware ‘Pegasus’ to monitor users sensitive data, activities, and movements. The spyware was recently deployed in 1,400 senior government and military official’s phones in 20 countries, including Pakistan.
The ministry said that in order to minimise the possibility of any infection by Pegasus malware, government officials holding sensitive portfolios and dealing with national security matters should not share any classified information on WhatsApp or any similar application.
Furthermore, Pakistani users could be in a more precarious situation as the Indian government is also reportedly using the spyware to monitor the Pakistani user’s cellphone data.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi has also alleged Prime Minister Modi’s government of collaborating with Israeli spy agencies to spy into the phones of journalists, lawyers, activists and politicians in India.
The spyware (Pegasus) has sent waves of concerns in every corner of the world because it has infected millions of smartphones. WhatsApp has officially acknowledged the cyber-attack and filed a lawsuit against the maker of the software. WhatsApp/Facebook has also sued the Israeli company in the US court of San Francisco for violating the US, California state laws as well as the WhatsApp terms of services.
Considering the Ministry doesn’t have any solution in place to curb cyber-attacks of this level, they have advised government officials to discard all mobile phones purchased before May 10 this year.
Momina Mustehsan’s duet with Bilal Saeed Baari has crossed 1.5 million views on Youtube in less than 36 hours.
The soft, melodious song has been set in the heart of Lahore in Yousaf Sallauddin’s Haveli, while the iconic Badshahi Masjid can be seen in the background.
Bilal plays a young man visiting the city from abroad. He waits with Rahim Pardesi (who has a special appearance in the song) to catch a glimpse of Momina as she passes by on her way to college with her friends.
According to the singers, the song encapsulates young love and the happiness it brings in life.
“Love is the beginning of everything in life; it leads to unimaginable happiness. This winters, feel the warmth of love with Baari,” reads the caption.
Also would like to add here that we absolutely love the wardrobe which has been done by Mohsin Naveed Ranjha – it perfectly complements the background and setting of the song.
Baari has been written and composed by Bilal who has also produced the music video.
APS attack survivor Ahmad Nawaz received the 2019 Legacy Award for the Diana Award on November 26. Prior to receiving the award from Lady Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, Ahmad attended a tea hosted by Prince William at Kensington Palace, where the Prince interacted with the recipients.
Ahmad shared pictures from the event on his social media, adding that William was delighted to have visited Pakistan.
I’m extremely honoured to be awarded ‘The Legacy award 2019’ for my global campaign. It was an absolute pleasure to be invited by HRH Prince Williams to @KensingtonRoyal for tea and share my work for young people with him. He told me that he loved his recent visit to Pakistan pic.twitter.com/g31oztaMoL
Ahmed, now 18, has become the first Pakistani to receive the Princess Diana Award for his anti-radicalization campaign. He was only 14 when the Taliban attacked his school in Peshawar in 2014. He managed to save himself by pretending to be lying dead but he witnessed the horror of the massacre and his teacher get set on fire by terrorist militants. He suffered multiple injuries on his arm; was given special treatment at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Though Ahmad survived the attack, he lost his brother in the deadly attack.
According to Kensington Palace, the 2019 Legacy Awards from the Diana Award “celebrate the achievements of 20 outstanding young leaders, visionaries and role models from across the world, aged 12-25, who have demonstrated their ability to inspire and mobilise new generations to serve their communities.”
The #2019LegacyAwards from the @DianaAward celebrate the achievements of 20 outstanding young leaders, visionaries and role models from across the world, aged 12-25, who have demonstrated their ability to inspire and mobilise new generations to serve their communities. pic.twitter.com/oXEec5tH6n
— The Prince and Princess of Wales (@KensingtonRoyal) November 26, 2019
The Legacy Award is handed out every two years, and winners are only eligible if they have previously received a Diana Award within the two-year period. This year’s winners included young people from the UK, Pakistan, Canada, Tanzania, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria and India.
Winners are determined by an independent judging panel, which included Baroness Lawrence, Holly Branson, and Alex Cruz.
Ahmad in conversation with Prince William
“This ceremony is about celebrating young people for their selfless contribution to society, their courage and bravery, and demonstrating to young people that we value them,” said Tessy Ojo, the Diana Award’s Chief Executive Officer in a statement on its official website.
“We believe that valuing young people means investing in them so we are delighted that our Legacy Award recipients will have access to our unique development programme ensuring they continue to be positive trailblazers for their generation.”
The inaugural winners were revealed in 2017, and Princes William and Harry attended the award ceremony. This year’s ceremony was attended by Earl Spencer, Diana’s younger brother.
