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PTA restores internet services in Lahore They had been blocked for the last five days SAMAA | Zaheer Ali Khan - Posted: Apr 20, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago SAMAA | Zaheer Ali Khan Posted: Apr 20, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 hours ago Photo: File Listen to the story Internet services across Lahore have been restored after five days. They were suspended because of the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan protests. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority announced on Tuesday that internet s...

Lahore and Amritsar: Two cities joined at birth are dying together Lahore and Amritsar: Two cities joined at birth are dying together A border drawn across the map severed centuries of bonds forged between the two cities. But memories of the past linger in the air. Amritsar was born in Lahore. It was born inside the walled city, in a small house in its narrow and winding streets. It was the month of Assu, corresponding to the months of September and October in the Gregorian calendar. It was a m...

How colonialism eroded Pakistan’s history of religious fluidity Haroon Khalid © The complex containing the shrine of Ram Thaman, a 16th-century Hindu saint, where the annual festiv... The complex containing the shrine of Ram Thaman, a 16th-century Hindu saint, where the annual festival of Vaisakhi begins in Ram Thaman, Pakistan, this year on April 13 [Haroon Khalid/Al Jazeera] Inside the courtyard of a house in the village of Ram Thaman, near Lahore in Pakistan, an audience...

Muslims and Hindus once shared their sacred shrines. This changed post-Partition but some traditions have survived.

Four trucks kickstart anti-hunger programme CM says Iftar will also be offered to people on the routes A villager prepares roti (bread) in her mud house in the village Bhattian Jivery at Tharparkar June 25, 2008. Soaring food prices and shortages of staples mean about 77 million people of Pakistans 160 million population are food insecure, a 28 percent increase over the past year, according to U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) estimates. The term food insecure means people are unable to get suffi...

Daily Times April 12, 2021 Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Sunday inaugurated “Koi Bhuka Na Soye ” programme in Lahore, in order to protect the poor people from inflation and price hike. Under the programme, the poor and labour classes would be provided nearly 10,000 free meal boxes twice a day through mobile trucks at various points of Lahore. The programme was initially launched in two cities of Punjab — Lahore and Faisalabad. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the CM s...

Cops cautioned against fake CCPO calls Fake magistrate held for hoodwinking traders LAHORE: Police are on the lookout for a man reportedly involved in impersonating the Lahore CCPO on phone for exerting influence in various matters, a week after apprehending a suspect who triggered an hours-long search operation around Data Darbar by a hoax phone call. CCPO Ghulam Mehmood Dogar told The Express Tribune on Wednesday that he had come to know that someone had contacted various police stations in t...

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative  ISLAMABAD: Amidst the ongoing Covid-19 vaccination drive across the country, Pakistan government resorted to re-imposing the ‘Smart Lockdown’ to control the surge in coronavirus cases, said to be ‘third wave of pandemic’. The country recorded a sharp increase in daily Covid-19 cases during last few days — 2,700 cases on daily basis, leading total infections to exceed the 607,000 mark — a day after the head of the National Command and Operati...

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Auqaf department says the shrines will be closed till April 15