DERA ISMAIL KHAN/SWABI: Two girls were killed and two others injured when they were hit by a speeding car while crossing the Dera-Chashma Road on Sunday.
A police official said the victims belonged to Awan village, adding six-year-old Shano Bibi and her cousin, five-year-old Nasheela Bibi died on the spot. Two women were also injured and were shifted to the Dera Civil Hospital.
The Korai police registered a case against the unidentified car driver on the report of Pir Bakhsh, father of deceased Shano Bibi.
Meanwhile, four people sustained serious injuries when a tractor-trolley and a passenger coach collided at Khunda Mor on the Swabi-Jehangira Road on Sunday.
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has sought Rs310 million from the Punjab government to complete two ongoing road schemes in the city which has been pending for the last three years.
A senior RDA official told Dawn that the civic body had started the work on Rs433 million Dry Port Road and Rs233 million Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan Road in 2018 but the work was still incomplete for want of funds.
He said the provincial government had released a meager Rs30 million each for the two roads in Annual Development Programme 2020-21 making it impossible for the civic body to complete the construction work.
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Designer of the Iconic Doors of Holy Kaaba Passes Away
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Al-Jundi was chosen to design the doors of the Kaaba during the reign of King Khalid Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud during the 1970s. It is believed that King Khalid assigned the Badr family in Makkah to manufacture the new doors. Sheikh Mahmoud Badr and his son headed the project.
Saudi King, Shah Khalid, had offered prayers inside the Baitullah at the time, after which he had instructed to make the door of the Kaaba out of pure gold.
An official at the time said, “It was designed by engineer Munir Al-Jundi, and its lines were made by Sheikh Abdul Rahim Bukhari. Its height is more than three meters, its width is approximately two meters, its depth is half a meter, and it consists of two bookends and a wooden base 10 cm thick of teak wood.”