Iqbal Day: Govt announces public holiday on Nov 9

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has announced a public holiday on November 9 (Wednesday) across the country to mark ‘Iqbal Day’, the 145th birth anniversary of Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal.

The government notified the development on Tuesday.

“The Prime Minister has been pleased to desire that November 9 (Iqbal Day) shall henceforth be observed as a Public Holiday,” an official notification read.

Dr Iqbal played an instrumental role in inspiring millions of Muslims across the sub-continent to seek an independent homeland where they could practice Islam freely.

The day would dawn with special prayers in mosques for the progress and prosperity of Pakistan.

Popularly known in Pakistan and other parts of the world as "Poet of the East", Dr Iqbal was born in Sialkot on November 9, 1877.

Iqbal was an acclaimed oet and philosopher. He is credited with writing poetry and using his political influence to demand the creation of a separate homeland for Muslims.

His Allahabad address of 1930 was a watershed moment in pre-partition politics.

Allama Iqbal's address gave a clear direction and separate identity to Muslims of the sub-continent to achieve Pakistan.

A Change of Guards ceremony will also be held at his mausoleum in Lahore.

Electric busses to run on Karachi roads from tomorrow

 November 6, 2022

MM News Staff

KARACHI: In a move aimed at improving the environment of the city where vehicular emissions contribute to its poor air quality, Sindh government will be running tests for environment-friendly buses in Karachi from tomorrow.

In a message posted on social media site Twitter, Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said that the provincial government is launching a new bus service in Karachi tomorrow (Monday)

These will be Pakistan’s first-ever electrical public transport vehicles that are completely environment friendly.

The routes will be finalized after the test run for the electric buses is complete.

In 2021, Sindh Transport Minister Syed Owais Shah had launched Pakistan’s first electric bus in Karachi.

Speaking to the media after the launching ceremony, he had promised that additional electric buses would be brought on to the city’s roads in cooperation with the private sector.

As many as 100 electric buses were planned to hit the road by the end of 2021 but it did not transpire.

Imran Khan Former Pakistan PM says ‘long march’ to resume Tuesday

 Imran Khan made the remarks in a video broadcast from a hospital in Lahore where he was being treated after being shot in the leg during a protest march three days earlier.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his supporters’ “long march” towards the capital demanding early elections will re-start on Tuesday after it was disrupted by an attempt on his life by a gunman.

Khan made the remarks in a video broadcast live on social media on Sunday from a hospital in the eastern city of Lahore, where he was receiving treatment after being shot in the leg during the protest march three days earlier.

The chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party was later discharged from the health facility.