Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa woke up to a cloudy sky and hazy air. Dense fog blanketed several areas of the province Tuesday morning. In Punjab, Lahore s Allama Iqbal International Airport was shut and the runway was closed after visibility fell to zero. Multiple national and international flight operations were canceled and delayed. G9-852 Ras al Khaimah➡️Lahore (delayed till 1:00pm)SV-736 Riyadh➡️Lahore (delayed till 2:05pm) PA-413 Sharjah➡️Lahore (delayed till 9:15pm)ER-524 Karachi ➡️Lahore (cancelled)PA-410 Lahore➡️Dubai (delayed till 11:45pm)PA-402 Lahore➡️Karachi (delayed till 12pm)— Samaa English (@SamaaEnglish) January 11, 2022 Motorway and highways were.
A Journey on the Grand Trunk Road
A Journey on the Grand Trunk Road
Cover of ‘From Landi Kotal to Wagah’
Salman Rashid’s new book pairs gorgeous photographs with little-known history in tribute to the grid that has long connected far-flung areas of Pakistan
The extraordinary
From Landi Kotal to Wagah (UNESCO and Sang-e-Meel, 2021) mixes in equal measure excellent photography and storytelling to merit a status above that of the average coffee-table book that is more frills than substance.
Its storyteller is Salman Rashid, Pakistan’s preeminent travel-writer, who is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The traveler in him blends with the historian and ethnographer to tell a hitherto untold story of the Grand Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Lahore. He has written steadily about Pakistan’s far-flung and little known areas for the past 40 years and has contributed to a knowledge of history that is free of the ideological accretions Pakistan is habituated to
PESHAWAR: Chairman of the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Maulana Syed Mohammad Abdul Khabir Azad announced the sighting of Ramazan’s moon here on Tuesday evening, heralding the beginning of the Islamic fasting month.
The committee met at the provincial secretariat of Auqaf at Eidgah on Charsadda Road on Tuesday. Besides local and central ulema of the committee, the meeting was also attended by officials of the Met office.
Announcing the decision, Maulana Khabir said that evidence of moon sighting had been received from Islamabad, Karachi, Badin, Swat, Rajanpur, Qasur and other cities of the country. He said it would send a message of unity that the fasting month would be observed throughout the country on the same day.