Category: Legal Judicial

Zameen.com — Pakistan’s most prominent real estate enterprise — recently organized its famous Property Sales Event (PSE) at Meridien Hotel in Gujranwala for the first time.

The two-day event was a resounding success, as it received an overwhelming response and was attended by a large number of people. During the two-day affair, several premium real estate ventures were presented to the attendees and potential investors.

The promising projects showcased during the event include SA Tower, City Galleria, Ismail Tower, Khayaban-e-Nawab, Canal valley Daska and Union Tower. Zameen.com holds the marketing and sales rights of all these projects.

On the occasion, Zameen.com Senior Director Sales (Central) Shuja Ullah Khan revealed that organizing a Property Sales Event in Gujranwala had proved to be a progressive step that would undoubtedly give a boost to the local real estate market.

He added that the company would be returning to Gujranwala for similar events in the future, and that Zameen.com planned to take its PSEs to other cities in the country as well.

Director Project Sales (Central) Muzaffar Majeed also addressed the ceremony and said that the warm reception of the first PSE in Gujranwala was an encouraging sign. He remarked that the city’s property market had a high potential that the company intended to unveil through such innovative steps.

Taking to the stage, Regional Head Gujranwala Arsalan Ahmed stated that the city’s property market had immense value and room for development, which had been exemplified in the success of the city’s first PSE.

He expressed his resolve to keep creating such opportunities in the future in order to provide investors with secure and profitable investment options.

Towards the conclusion of the event, Zameen.com’s sales team offered a comprehensive presentation comprising real-time insights, statistics, and analyses of the country’s real estate industry.

The attendees lauded the effort of Zameen.com and expressed a keen interest in the projects that were presented to them.

Source: Pro Pakistan

Gunmen in northwestern Pakistan killed three members of a polio vaccination team and injured another Tuesday, even as the country experiences a fresh outbreak of the infectious, crippling disease.

Officials said the early morning shooting incident occurred during a door-to-door immunization drive in North Waziristan, a turbulent district on the border with Afghanistan. It left a health worker and two policemen escorting the polio team dead.

Wild polio virus has paralyzed eleven children in Pakistan this year, the largest number in the world, and all of the cases are from the Waziristan district, according to the national eradication program.

No group immediately took responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly attack.

The United Nations children agency, UNICEF, condemned the attack on the polio team and expressed its sympathy to families of those killed, saying they were among thousands of heroes who work selflessly to end polio.

UNICEF in a statement released via Twitter said such attacks “aim to prevent every girl and boy from being protected from polio, a disease that causes lifelong disability.”

Islamist insurgents are active in North Waziristan and oppose anti-polio drives as a government effort to collect intelligence on their hideouts.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries where polio continues to paralyze children, although case numbers in recent years have significantly declined on both sides of the border.

Afghan officials have reported one case of wild polio virus in 2022 and four in 2021.

Pakistan reported its first polio case of 2022 in early April after having gone nearly 15 months without a single child being crippled by the virus.

Polio paralyzed about 20,000 Pakistani children a year in the early 1990s.

The current immunization campaign in Pakistan started on Monday, covering 25 “very high-risk districts for polio” across the country, with a goal to vaccinate more than 12 million children.

“I particularly urge all parents and caregivers to get their children vaccinated instead of hiding them or refusing to take the necessary drops during all vaccination drives,” Shahzad Baig, the coordinator of the national emergency operation center, said in a pre-campaign statement.

Pakistani health officials say that many parents in North Waziristan and surrounding districts continue to refuse polio drops for their children during national vaccination campaigns while others resent repeated door-to-door visits by vaccinators as intrusive.

The refusals stem from suspicions the immunization is a Western-led conspiracy to sterilize Muslim children. The false information has also triggered attacks against health care workers and security forces escorting them, resulting in the deaths of scores of people in recent years and slowing down the eradication efforts.

Pakistani officials have documented incidents in which parents suspicious of inoculation campaigns sometimes in collusion with health workers get hold off special markers used by vaccinators to put a colored spot on the fingers of children who have been vaccinated. The finger marking is used to determine the exact scale of refusal rates.

Health experts say polio mainly affects children under the age of five years and invades their nervous system, causing paralysis or even death.

Source: Voice of America

Secretary Forest Balochistan, Dostain Jamaldini has said that all available resources are being utilized to extinguish pine forest fire in District Sherani.

In a statement on Tuesday, he said Iranian firefighting tanker aircraft is also being used in extinguishing the fire.

He said the intensity of the fire has reduced to a large extent, however, efforts are underway for complete extinguishing the fire.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Pakistan Navy has seized one thousand kilogram of hashish during a successful anti-narcotics operation.

According to a spokesperson of Pakistan Navy, PNS Shamsheer participated in the operation.

The value of the seized drugs in the global market is about 90 million rupees.

The Spokesperson said the successful operation against drug trafficking is the result of effective surveillance of Pakistan Navy in the Sea.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Saudi Arabia has provided a gift of one hundred tons of dates to the people of Pakistan as part of regular annual tradition.

Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Bin Said Al-Maliki handed over the consignment to Director General Military Wing Cabinet Division Brigader Hammad Amjad at a ceremony in Islamabad today.

The valuable Saudi gift will be distributed among the people of Pakistan during Ramazan.

Addressing the ceremony, Ambassador Nawaf Bin Said Al-Maliki reaffirmed Saudi Arabia’s commitment to always stand by the Pakistani brothers to take the brotherly relations to new heights. He prayed for peace, prosperity and stability of both the countries.

He said the gift is presented through King Salman Humanitrian Aid and Relief Center, which is the forefront of the service of humanity.

Speaking on the occasion, Brigadier Hammad Amjad said the annual gesture of the gift of dates is a testament of the strong and everlasting brotherly relations between the two countries.

Later, talking exclusively to Radio Pakistan Correspondent Aman Ullah Sipra, the Saudi Ambassador said the relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is very old and unique. He said this relationship is not just government to government but people to people.

The Ambassador said the peoples of the two countries have similar emotions of mutual respect for each other. He expressed confidence that the bilateral relationship would further deepen in days to come.

Source: Radio Pakistan

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) says it has full capability to hold general elections as per law in the country.

In a clarification on statements of politicians, the commission said ECP is fully aware of its constitutional and legal responsibilities and it is fulfilling as well as per past practice.

It asked political leaders to avoid irrelevant criticism on ECP and assured that the ECP is fully committed to complete its legal tasks, given in the constitution of the country.

Source: Radio Pakistan