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Punjab govt notifies establishment of WASA, Parks and Horticulture Authority

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Major projects including new residential sectors to reform city

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The tickets for the Men’s Asia Cup 2025 — including the much-awaited Pakistan-India clash — are now available for sale, the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) said on Friday. According to the board, the tickets are being sold starting from 40 dirhams (PKR 3,069.51) for the matches in Abu Dhabi and 50 (PKR 3,836.89) dirhams for the ones in Dubai. “Tickets for the most sought-after India v Pakistan match will initially be available in a seven-match tickets package starting at 1,400 [dirhams] (PKR 10,743.28),” the ECB announced. It said fans could buy separate (standalone) tickets for each of the remaining matches not included in the seven-match ticket package. The board said that, in the coming days, tickets will also be made available at the ticket booths at both the Dubai International Stadium and Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi — the details of which will be announced in due course. The Salman Ali Agha-led Pakistan are set to compete in the Asia Cup that runs from Sept 9 to 28 in the UAE. The Green-shirts are in ...

Perched on her neighbour’s rooftop, Ghulam Bano gazes down at the remains of her home, submerged in murky, foul-smelling floodwater that has engulfed much of Punjab province. Monsoon rains this week swelled three transboundary rivers that cut through Punjab, the country’s agricultural heartland and home to nearly half of its 255 million people. Bano moved to Shahdara town last year, on the outskirts of Lahore, to avoid the choking smog pollution of Pakistan’s second-largest city, only to have her new beginning overturned by raging floods. “My husband had started coughing blood and his condition just kept getting worse when the smog hit,” Bano told AFP, walking through muddy streets. A doctor checks an evacuated resident from her submerged home, as she takes shelter at a government school after floodwaters entered from the overflowing Ravi river in Shahdara, Lahore on August 29, 2025. — AFP Pakistan regularly ranks among the world’s most polluted countries, with Lahore often the most polluted megacity between ...

Promises compensation after damage assessment

Residents of settlements along Ravi lose belongings

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Private hospitals also mobilised as floods aggravate

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Crops on 76,000 acres of land destroyed; victims face hunger, disease

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