The Pakistan pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai has won the BURJ CEO Award for “Best Pavilion Exterior Design,” the pavilion’s official Twitter account said on Monday. The Burj CEO awards recognize business excellence. Rashid Rana, the brains behind the exterior, was also honoured with the third-highest civilian award Sitara-e-Imtiaz for his contributions to Pakistan in art.
A man in Lahore murdered his pregnant wife for chanting the slogan “Mera Jism Meri Marzi”. According to details, the horrific incident took place in Lahore’s Shalimar area. Allah Ditta strangled his 28-year-old wife, Maimona, and later tried to cover it up by burning her body and posing it as an accident. However, police have arrested him.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has granted approval to Burj Energy International Management, a UAE-based renewable energy producer, to float the South Asian nation’s first green energy modaraba worth Rs1 billion (approximately $5.5 million), the watchdog and company officials said. Modarabas are equity-like financing vehicles that are a small but significant part of Islamic finance in the world’s second-largest Muslim nation.
The 1974 OIC meeting held in Lahore was a power show of Islamic world that never happened again.
On February 22 in 1974, Lahore hosted all the leaders of the Islamic world in the summit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The city was jubilant as its hero Zulfikar Ali Bhutto presided over the summit, which some of the biggest names in the global politics of that time were attending.
Institute of Business Management (IoBM), one of the country’s top universities has installed sanitary napkins vending machines to make essential hygiene products available to female staff, professors, and students on campus. From the photos that have appeared on social media, it seems like only one vending machine has been installed in a ladies’ restroom.
An Indian restaurant in Islamic country Bahrain’s Adliya has been closed by the authorities after it allegedly denied entry to a veiled woman. The incident came to the fore after the video of a restaurant staff blocking a veiled woman went viral on social media platforms. The restaurant authority has put out an apology statement on social media expressing regret for the incident.
Videos of a dance party organised by students of IBA, identifying as homosexuals, have spread like wildfire on social media, leading to an outcry by the alumni and administration alike. The videos circulating on popular social media platforms show several scantily dressed students dancing on the main campus of IBA Karachi at the Karachi University.
Separated during Partition, Indian citizen Sikka Khan (78) was warmly welcomed when he arrived at the house of his brother Siddiq Khan (80) in Faisalabad. Sikka (real name is Muhammad Habib) and Siddiq Khan were separated during the Partition of India. Their father was killed in the violence, Siddiq and his sister moved to Pakistan while Sikka was left in India along with his mother.
A seven-year-old Pakistani girl has won a gold medal at the International Jiu-Jitsu Competition 2022. Anayah Naveed Dar represented Pakistan in the under 28 weight category and defeated Russian player Latifa in the first match. Later, she defeated Shamsa of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Apart from being a gold medalist in Jiu-Jitsu, Anayah is also the youngest MMA fighter and Horse Show Jumper.
The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has announced PML-Q leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi as its candidate for Punjab chief minister after incumbent Usman Buzdar presented his resignation to the prime minister. Prime minister’s aide on political communication, Shahbaz Gill, made the announcement on Twitter. The development comes less than an hour after the opposition formally tabled a no-confidence resolution against PM Imran in the National Assembly.