Provincial Minister of Punjab for Environment Protection Muhammad Rizwan in a show aired on City 42 News claimed that there has been no smog in Punjab, including Lahore, for the last two years.
He said that the Air Quality Index (AQI) of Lahore which is being observed nowadays is different.
Twitterati couldn’t control their emotions as Lahore frequently topped the chart of the world’s most polluted cities.
Some lashed out while others had hilarious reactions to the minister’s statement.
A man and a woman reportedly committed suicide by consuming poisonous pills after their families did not agree to their marriage, The Express Tribune reported.
The lovers, Adnan and Muqaddas, wished to marry each other but the woman’s parents had arranged her marriage elsewhere.
On the wedding day, the disappointed couple committed suicide by consuming poisonous pills.
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After the incident was reported to the police, the officials took the bodies into custody. The bodies were handed over to the families after the legal formalities.
According to the police, the marriage ceremony was about to happen when the incident took place.
The funerals of both the deceased were held amid a gloomy atmosphere in the village.
Bahawalpur National Park administration captured two crocodiles that escaped from the lake, Geo News reported.
According to Deputy Director Wildlife Muhammad Zahid, crocodiles were experimentally transferred to the lake at Lal Sohanra National Park in Bahawalpur, out of which two crocodiles suddenly went missing.
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According to Deputy Director Wildlife, 15 days later, the two crocodiles were found in an empty canal in the park premises.
Police have started an investigation in the case of a young girl whose body was found dumped in a washroom of a metro bus station in Islamabad’s G-11, ARY News reported.
The girl whose body was found on Monday has not yet been identified. She was aged between 11 and 12 years.
The police suspect that the marks on her neck indicate that the girl was subjected to sexual abuse before she was strangled. Police will tell the actual cause of the death after the autopsy report.
The police have detained two security guards of the metro bus station for an inquiry. A team has been constituted to probe her death.
The body was shifted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where a medical board conducted an autopsy on the deceased. Samples were taken from the body and given to the police for chemical examination.
The Punjab government has initiated the process to unban Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
Punjab Home Department sent a summary for the revocation of the TLP ban to Chief Minister (CM) Punjab Usman Buzdar and his cabinet.
The notification by the Home Department requested the provincial government to respond in three days.
After the likely approval from CM Buzdar and the provincial cabinet, the federal government will be moved to do away with TLP’s banned status, said the Home Department.
Earlier today, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said that the chief of TLP, Saad Hussain Rizvi, had insisted on the closure of the French embassy in the country and asked that this issue is brought in the National Assembly, reports Dawn.
Moreover, the minister said, “I have made signatures on the previous agreement and I am steadfast on this. As for the rest of the problems, two ministers have been appointed and they will answer your queries.”
The Punjab government also decided to release 100 more activists of the proscribed organisation from different jails in the province. Previously 2,000 jailed activists of the banned organisation were released.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan hinted at the release of Saad Rizvi and said that the state cannot afford to ban a party that has a 2.5 million vote bank in Punjab.
According to the quarterly survey by Pulse Consultants, almost six out of 10 people have no confidence in Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s claim of coming out of the economic crisis, reports The News.
The survey is based on 1,809 respondents’ opinions who were interviewed from October 04, 2021 to October 10, 2021. It covered 60+ cities from all provinces of Pakistan.
According to the survey, the number of people losing faith in PM’s economic policies is around 57 per cent coupled with a drop in those who were confident that the prime minister will be able to turn the tide.
In July, 17 per cent respondents expressed confidence in PM’s policies, which in the current survey has dropped to seven percent. Regarding questions about the direction of the economic policies, 56 per cent respondents in July found them to be in the wrong direction, but three months later it has risen by 19 per cent to 77 per cent. On the contrary, those perceiving them to be on the right track have dropped to 24 per cent from 43 per cent in July.
Anxiety about the wrong direction is high is in the main political battleground provinces Punjab (79 percent) and Sindh (73 percent), as per the survey.
Since November 19, 2018 more than 95 per cent believe that inflation has increased after every three months.
Furthermore, the survey states that 68 per cent of people do not have savings and most of them have reduced their expenditures to make ends meet.
When the respondents were asked about the country’s major concern, 77 per cent complained about inflation whereas 35 per cent found corruption, 25 per cent unemployment, 11 per cent load shedding, while 10 per cent termed inability to meet expenses as their biggest problem.
The Pulse Consultant also asked the respondents about the performance of PM’s Adviser on Finance and Revenues, Shaukat Tarin, which showed that 53 per cent were dissatisfied with him.
The survey was conducted through CATI (Computer assisted telephonic interviews), a state-of-the-art technology where all calls are recorded.
The country is Heading Towards Wrong Economical Direction
PM Claim About Restoration of Country Economic Outlook
Satisfaction with Shaukat Tarin
Inflation Trend
Price Hike – Major Cause of Dissatisfaction
Expenses
We asked the same questions about “Monthly Expenses Management” back in July 2020, in July 2020, 41% had the opinion that – their monthly expenses are according to their income – but with the decline of 9% , now 32% have the same opinion
Almost 78% of Pakistanis believe that no woman is safe in Pakistan while only 20% believe that women are safe in the country, a survey conducted by Pulse Consultant has shown.
At least 18,000 Pakistanis participated in the survey conducted by a Karachi-based marketing and social research company, Pulse Consultant.
Most of the Pakistanis who think women are unsafe in the country were from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The survey showed that 35% of citizens of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa consider women safe to some extent in Pakistan, while only 19% consider them completely safe.
Similarly, 35% of people in Punjab saw women as unsafe in Pakistan, 41% saw them safe to some extent, and 21% saw them completely safe.
The rate of people who consider women unsafe in Pakistan from Sindh was 26% in the survey, while the rate of those who consider them safe to some extent was 49%. Meanwhile, 24% of the survey respondents considered them to be completely safe in the country.
The survey showed that most Pakistanis who see women safe to some extent in Pakistan are from Balochistan, where 74% of people vouched for it.
Whereas, 19% of citizens of Balochistan saw women as unsafe in Pakistan. Only 7% of the respondents from the province saw them as completely safe.
The statistics compiled in the survey based on social status suggested that 45% of people from the lower class believe that women are not safe in Pakistan.
The rate of people who saw women as unsafe from the lower middle class was 35%, 30% from the middle class, 29% from the upper-middle class, while 34% from the upper class.
Meanwhile, statistics based on gender showed that women were more positive than men when it came to their safety in Pakistan.
As many as 29% of women believe that they are safe outside the home, while only 22% of men vouched for it.
The survey was conducted through CATI (Computer assisted telephonic interviews), a state-of-the-art technology where all calls are recorded.
Overall Perception of Women Safety in Pakistan
Women Safety – Outside the home – Women’s Perception
Women Safety – Outside the home – Male’s Perception
All Punjab education boards will announce the results of the Matric and Intermediate Annual Examinations 2021 within 48 hours, reports Khalid Khattak for Geo News.
Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yassir Humayun Sarfraz said that all the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISEs) had already prepared results, expressing the hope that the results would be announced soon in Punjab.
There are a total of nine education boards in Punjab including BISE of Lahore, DG Khan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Bahawalpur, Multan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, and Sahiwal.
Students gave their board exams in August and since then no result date was announced.
To facilitate students, it was also decided that all candidates who failed in any subject would be given 33 per cent marks for the purpose of computing averages.
Police arrested a sweeper at a government school in Sheikhupura for raping a fifth-grader inside the school, Shahbaz Khan reported for Samaa News.
Younas Masih was arrested on Monday after the child’s mother reported the case at Housing Colony Police Station, Sheikhupura.
The mother alleged that after her child told her that she was assaulted by the sweeper at the school, she went to the police but they did not listen to her.
She then had to go to the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau who helped her register the case.
The child’s medical examination at the District Headquarters Hospital had confirmed the sexual assault
Police said the suspect has confessed to the crime.
The suspect said that he used to buy the child shawarmas. “One day I forcefully took her to the washroom.”
A report sent by the principal to the District Education Authority said that Younas was detained from the school gate on Monday around 10:30am.
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After Younas was caught, the principal formed a four-member internal committee to probe the incident.
Sheikhupura police presented the suspect before a local court on Tuesday. The court sent Younas on three-day physical remand.
A doctor who allegedly made objectionable videos of nurses and lady doctors in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital has been arrested by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Tuesday, Geo News reported.
According to FIA officials, a victim woman, a resident of Chongi Amrsadho Lahore, had registered a complaint against Dr Abdullah Haris of Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the Cyber Crime Wing.
The suspect was blackmailing her with obscene videos of the victim.
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FIA officials said that the Cyber Crime Wing arrested the accused, Abdullah Haris, and seized two mobile phones.
Around 50 videos of several nurses and lady doctors were recovered from the doctor’s mobile. A case has been registered against the accused and further investigation is underway.