MURREE, July 8(ABC): The Punjab government on Friday made a ground-breaking decision to operate 15 buses from Bhara Kahu to Murree on the occasion of Eid-Azha. According to details, 15 buses will travel from Bhara Kahu to Murree on Eid. The Punjab government would operate 15 buses from Bhara Kahu to Murree, according to Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Tahir Farooq. Eid-ul-Azha, …

LAHORE, Jul 17 (ABC): Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shahbaz has congratulated all the departments concerned for holding an impartial and transparent by-elections in the province. In a statement issued here, he lauded the departments for working day and night so as to ensure holding of peaceful elections. The voter used right to vote in a peaceful environment, he added. Unpleasant …

KARACHI, July 8(ABC): The 6th death anniversary of prominent philanthropist and humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi is being observed on Friday. Abdul Sattar Edhi was born on February 28, 1928, in Gujarat before partition of the sub-continent. He started welfare services in Pakistan in 1951. He established world s largest volunteer ambulance network along with shelters for homeless people and animals …

KARACHI, July 8(ABC): After heavy rainfall in Karachi, the infrastructure of the metropolitan city has been badly affected. Thursday’s moderate to heavy showers played havoc while low-lying areas of the city are still flooded with rainwater. Gadap river in Karachi has been overflowed, while three people fled in the Lath river. As per details, water level in the Malir river …

RAWALPINDI, July 8(ABC): Business was quieter than usual at one of Pakistan’s biggest livestock markets Friday as an economic crunch stopped customers from splashing out on cows, sheep and goats for the Eid ul Adha. Farmers have been camped at the I-15 cattle market between Islamabad and Rawalpindi for two weeks, hoping to sell their stock ahead of the holiday, …

LAHORE, July 8(ABC): Dua Zahra — the girl who was reported missing from Karachi on April 16 but was recovered from Punjab later and declared that she had run away from her home to marry 21-year-old Zaheer Ahmed — has appealed to her parents to “stop humiliating” her through court cases. Speaking to a private TV channel flanked by her …

LAHORE, July 17 (ABC): The first Hajj flight PA-471, from Jeddah to Lahore, carrying 230 pilgrims arrived here at Allama Iqbal International Airport in wee hours Sunday. The Air Blue flight arrived in the city around 2:00 am. The Hajis were welcomed by the Director Hajj Malik Rehan Abbas Khokhar, Deputy Director Zakaullah and Mujeeb Akbar Shah and Air Blue …

ISLAMABAD, July 8(ABC): Hot and humid weather is expected in most parts of the country during the next twelve hours. However more rain-wind and thundershower is expected in Kashmir, north eastern Punjab, Upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan. Temperature of some major cities recorded this morning: Islamabad and Karachi twenty-eight degree centigrade, Lahore thirty-one, Peshawar thirty, Quetta twenty-three, Gilgit twenty-two, …

KARACHI, Jul 16(ABC): Sindh Government on Saturday decided to increase the financial assistance to legal heirs of each deceased miner from Rs1 million to Rs1.5 million. The decision to this effect was made at a meeting chaired by Sindh Energy Minister Imtiaz Ahmed Shaikh and attended among others by the representatives of mine owners and miners’associations, said in a official …

ISLAMABAD, Jul 16(ABC): Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) on Saturday decided to start the admission of public medical colleges from October 17, 2022, concluding the entire process alongwith special seats by December 31, 2022. The decision was made at the meeting of the National Admissions Scheduling Committee of the PMC with consensus which was held here to decide the admission schedule …