An art exhibition featuring the works done by Prof Kamil Khan Mumtaz opened at the Koel Gallery less than a week ago. The art show titled ‘Likhai’ will be running at the gallery until.
The commission being constituted under an ordinance to legalise illegal housing schemes, including those falling in green areas, can be challenged in courts, says a lawyer. File
LAHORE: The commission being constituted under an ordinance to legalise illegal housing schemes, including those falling in green areas, can be challenged in courts, says a lawyer.
Lawyer Zafar Iqbal Kalanauri calls the ordinance unlawful, unconstitutional, and unethical that was prepared and issued a certain class of society. “Though, it is written in the ordinance that no court shall take cognizance of any matter covered under its provisions, the ordinance, the composition of the commission and the decision taken by it to regularize illegal housing schemes can be challenged in the high court under article 199 of the constitution,” he explained. “However, its decision cannot be heard by the lower courts (civil and session courts) under this ordinance,” he clarified.
February 28, 2021
Dr Ajaz Anwar talks of a huge botanical garden in Iqbal Town owned and maintained by Mian Ahmad Din, which is home to “the largest collection of local trees, some dating back to pre-partition times Image: Supplied
If you Google Allama Iqbal Town’s Jahanzeb Block, a botanical garden will show up. It’s unique in the whole country as it boasts the largest collection of local trees, some dating back to pre-partition times. These include mangoes, jamans, sheeshams, baeris, lasooras, sumbals, peepals and even a now near-extinct goandani.
According to local oral history, it was a huge garden owned and maintained by one Mian Ahmad Din who had made a fortune as the holder of a ration depot. It had a dedicated tubewell for which he regularly paid the electricity bill. Here he would hold regular qawwali events. When Iqbal Town was planned in the early 1970s, this garden was included in the scheme.
February 21, 2021
Dr Ajaz Anwar argues against the proposed shutting down of Walton Airport, a place that has long served the aviation enthusiasts besides playing host to countless mature trees and many nurseries on its periphery Photo by Rahat Dar
Not many would remember that the Lahore Omnibus, which plied its Leyland double-deckers, once comparable to any urban transport service in the world, was closed down primarily to grab the land of its depots. The yard along the Garden Town on Ferozepur Road too had been eyed by the entrepreneurs for long.
The project for a 500+-foot high block, to be funded by a party from the Middle East, had begun with deep excavations for its basement floors. The aviation authorities had their reservations and had refused to accord an NOC for it because of its planned height. For many years the abandoned site lay shuttered with warning signs. The motorists and other commuters had to avoid banging against its corrugated steel fencing and plunging