Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Here, Eisha Chaudhry, a law student in the final year of her external LL.B. pr.
Gulraiz KhanUpdated 21 Feb, 2021 06:06pm
Standing at the corner of the General Post Office [GPO] at Mall Road, it’s hard to feel the seismic rumble under your feet. It’s either because you’re trying to find your bearings on this expansive, nondescript plaza where McLeod Road meets the Mall, or because the thick January smog is lingering all around you, and your laboured breath in your N-95 mask is fogging up your glasses.
Either way, you’re questioning your decision to be here at 9.30am on a Sunday morning, looking for a sign of the orange ‘elephant’ that has caused a tectonic shift in Lahore’s fabric. Its reverberations, every five minutes from 5.30am to 11.30pm, will continue to drastically transform Lahore, and the region, for generations to come.
Engineers, designers out to save 100-year tree
NESPAK, LRRA officials review progress on Ring Road project
Rawalpindi commissioner asks NesPak to finalise design of 38-kilometres-long ring road from Rawat to Thalian on the Motorway. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
RAWALPINDI:
The officials of the National Engineering Services of Pakistan (NESPAK), Lahore Ring Road Authority (LRRA) and Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) toured the hour-long 66.3 kilometre track of the Rawalpindi Ring Road (RRR), a spokesperson shared on Sunday.
The stakeholders also reviewed various proposals to save the more than a century old banyan tree at Radio Pakistan Interchange, the starting point of the project.