The Municipal Department has imposed a garbage tax on 2,468 rural union councils across Punjab, Pakistan. A monthly tax of 50 rupees will be levied on residential homes, while businesses will be charged 100 rupees per month. Additionally, a tax of 1,000 rupees per establishment has been imposed on ...

*ISLAMABAD - Punjab government has decided to impose garbage tax on the citizens.* *The Punjab government does no longer want to pick up trash for free.* The government wants to start charging people to provide them with the facility. It has asked for the advice of the waste management ...

RAWALPINDI: Police have recovered four hand-grenades from the heap of garbage in the jurisdiction of Rawat Police Station here. According to police, the children who were collecting garbage dumped at Chakbeli Road informed that four hand grenades were laying in the garbage. Bomb Disposal Squad was ...

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the Solid Waste Management Authority to prepare a policy to hand over garbage for power generation. The chief minister, presiding over a meeting on Waste and Water Energy Project (WAEP) here at the CM House, said Karachi is generating ...

KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday has sought report from concerned authorities over recovering stamped ballot papers from heap of garbage in Karachi. After getting the stamped ballot in garbage, the ECP sought report from the provincial office, commissioner, district ...

KARACHI: Stamped ballot papers were recovered Sunday night from a garbage heap in the metropolis' Qayyumabad area, reported. The ballot papers mentioned candidates who contested the polls from the NA-241 and PS-160 constituencies. Further, voter cards were also found in the stashed electoral ...

LAHORE: Three bags full of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC) were found on Tuesday next to a garbage dump in Shafiqabad locality of the city, reported. According to police, three bags full of CNICs were discovered by trash pickers in the early hours of the day.  Upon inquiry, it ...

KARACHI:The police in Karachi have been arresting municipal staff instead of people who litter. Sindh had banned people from dumping household, industrial, commercial and hospital waste in open spaces. It gave SHOs the power to arrest anyone caught doing this. Except the police are not actually ...

KARACHI: Sindh government has imposed a ban on dumping household, industrial, commercial and hospital waste in open residential and commercial areas. A notification in this regard says action will be taken against the violators. The garbage is dumped only in areas designated by provincial ...

HYDERABAD: A man was killed in a blast in Qasimabad area on Monday. The blast occurred in a garbage trolley. The Qasimabad DSP said that the man was sifting through the garbage. However, the deceased could not be identified. Meanwhile, the police have identified the man killed in the blast and ...