Benazir Shah

2 days ago | geo.tv | Benazir Shah

LAHORE: For the second consecutive year, April in Pakistan arrived not with a bloom, but with blistering heat. Across large swathes of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius, weeks before the official onset of summer. “In the last two years, Pakistan has not been experiencing spring”, Muhammad Irfan Virk, the deputy director at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in Islamabad, told The News. “April is becoming increasingly warmer and hotter.

2 days ago | thenews.com.pk | Benazir Shah

LAHORE: For the second consecutive year, April in Pakistan arrived not with a bloom, but with blistering heat. Across large swathes of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, temperatures soared past 40 degrees Celsius, weeks before the official onset of summer. “In the last two years, Pakistan has not been experiencing spring”, Muhammad Irfan Virk, the deputy director at the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) in Islamabad, told The News. “April is becoming increasingly warmer and hotter.

2 weeks ago | geo.tv | Benazir Shah

LAHORE: A new local government bill in Punjab grants sweeping authority to unelected deputy commissioners (DCs), sidelining elected officials and raising alarms about democratic backsliding in Pakistan’s most populous province. Tabled by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on March 7 in the Punjab Assembly, the bill is currently under review in a standing committee, where it has come under fire not just from opposition lawmakers but also from members of the ruling party.

2 weeks ago | thenews.com.pk | Benazir Shah

LAHORE: A new local government bill in Punjab grants sweeping authority to unelected deputy commissioners (DCs), sidelining elected officials and raising alarms about democratic backsliding in Pakistan’s most populous province. Tabled by the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on March 7 in the Punjab Assembly, the bill is currently under review in a standing committee, where it has come under fire not just from opposition lawmakers but also from members of the ruling party.

1 month ago | geo.tv | Benazir Shah

LAHORE: Last September, as the wheat sowing season approached in Punjab, 39-year-old farmer Ayaz Sami sat in his home in Bahawalnagar, listening carefully to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz speak on television. "I want to tell farmers to cultivate as much wheat as you can, without fear," Maryam said. "I promise I will not let you suffer a loss." The promise was followed by advertisements promoting incentives, such as free tractors for farmers who expanded their wheat cultivation.