Pindi at risk from devastating floods
The garrison city is at risk of experiencing devastating floods due to heavy monsoon rains this year and a lack of funds for the silt cleaning of 10 major rain drains, including Nullah Leh. Prior to...
View ArticlePolice barred from raids after killing of youth
Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CPO) Khalid Mehmood Hamdani has issued directives to all squads of police including Muhafiz Squad, Elite and Dolphin Force and Eagle Squad to follow new standard...
View ArticleRising costs drive people to shared sacrifice
With the prices of sacrificial animals soaring day by day, citizens are turning to the tradition of ‘Ijtamai Qurbani’ (collective sacrifice), under which every individual contributes in his capacity to...
View ArticleWorkshop owner held over child’s death
A workshop owner has been taken into custody after the mysterious death of a child working in his workshop. Police said that the 12-year-old child, Kamran, who worked at a workshop was found dead under...
View ArticleGovt warning fails to sway Lahore sit-in plan
Due to a majority of teachers, clerks and non-teaching staff leaving for Lahore to participate in the protest sit-in against the ongoing privatisation of government schools, amendments to pension...
View ArticleRobbers make away with Rs4 million
Armed robbers Wednesday deprived a private bank customer of over Rs4 million in the Hyder Road area of the garrison city in a broad daylight robbery incident. According to a police spokesperson, the...
View ArticleHSSC annual exams start today
The Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (RBISE) has finalised all the arrangements for Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) annual exams 2023 which would start in Rawalpindi...
View ArticleFresh taxes imposed on trade of sacrificial animals
The Rawalpindi District Council and six municipal committees of the district have imposed a new taxes ranging from Rs100 to Rs500 on the sale and purchase of sacrificial animals to maximise their...
View ArticleNoor murder case: US officials meet death row inmate
Officials of the US Embassy in Islamabad met with Zahir Jafar, a death row inmate in the Noor Muqadam murder case, at the Adiala Central Jail on Tuesday. According to sources, the convict demanded...
View ArticleDonors pledge funds for hepatitis eradication plan
After the suspension of necessary funding by the ongoing US-based Task Force for Global Health for the Local Hepatitis Elimination and Prevention Programme (LHEAP) for free diagnosis and treatment of...
View ArticleSpecial child raped at school in Pindi
A 12-year-old specially-abled student has been sexually assaulted at a school for special children in the Mehrabad area of Westridge police station in Rawalpindi. According to a spokesperson for the...
View ArticleSafe City project still a distant dream
The authorities have decided to link the long-delayed Rawalpindi Safe City project to the garrison city’s traffic management system, further delaying the start of work on the project of public...
View ArticlePunjab’s takeover of Mother & Child Hospital begins
The Punjab government has started the process of taking over the administration of Rawalpindi’s Mother and Child Hospital from the federal government, its caretaker minister for primary and secondary...
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