Land mafia: Historic gate of Katri Baoo Mumtaz demolished
LAHORE: The gate of Katri Baoo Mumtaz, flanked by two lions inside the Sheranwala Gate, was demolished on Monday without permission from the Ravi Town administration, The Express Tribune has learnt....
View ArticleBusted: 18 arrested, weapons and narcotics seized
SARGODHA: The district police claimed to have arrested 18 people, including a woman, in separate raids on Wednesday, and seized heavy quantity of narcotics and weapons from them. Police said eight...
View ArticleEpidemic control: Dengue counters set up at LGH
LAHORE: Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Principal Anjum Habib Vohra on Wednesday said dengue counters had been set up at the Outdoor Patients Department of Lahore General Hospital (LGH). Vohra...
View ArticleTrouble-in-laws: Police accused of illegal detention, harassment
MUZZAFARGH: A woman on Wednesday claimed that the police were harassing her family on the orders of an influential politician after his daughter married her nephew against his wishes. 59-year-old Taj...
View ArticleLinesman dies of heart attack during raid
BAHAWALPUR: A Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) linesman died of a heart attack on Wednesday after a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team raided his house to arrest him for allegedly rigging...
View ArticleLove marriage: Son-in-law, his siblings shot dead
MULTAN: A man, his brother and their sister were shot dead at their home in Muzaffargarh on Wednesday a year and a half ago after a love marriage dispute. Police have yet to arrest the suspects....
View Article9/11 and the New World Order: Mujahid Kamran reveals plot to take over the...
LAHORE: The US and British governments are controlled by a “high cabal” of banking families who seek to manipulate each of us by putting microchips in our brains and who sponsor terrorist attacks in...
View ArticleInternational Literacy Day: ‘100% literacy rate imperative for progress’
FAISALABAD: “All possible measures should be taken to attain the target of 100 per cent literacy rate in the country,” Government College University, Faisalabad vice chancellor Dr Zakir Hussain said...
View ArticleInspiration for art: Elegies, Effigies artwork to be unveiled today
LAHORE: An exhibition of Dua Abbas Rizvi’s painting titled Elegies, Effigies will open on Thursday (today). Talking to The Express Tribune Rizvi said her work celebrated the female form. “I’ve tried...
View ArticleTerror allegation: LHC to hear plea against hide collection ban on 18th
LAHORE: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial of Lahore High Court will hear on September 18 a petition by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed challenging the restrictions imposed by the federal government on the Jamatud...
View ArticleVector control: ‘September is good for dengue mosquitoes’
LAHORE: “Government departments and other institutions should intensify their efforts to stop the spread of dengue fever as September weather is conducive to breeding of dengue mosquitoes,” Punjab...
View ArticleCapital crimes: Lawyers to challenge jail trial notifications
LAHORE: Lawyers have challenged the Home Department’s notifications for 143 murder and blasphemy cases to be tried in jail because of security concerns at the District and Sessions Court, has...
View ArticleLocal govt act: LHC asks how new law violates Articles 62 and 63
LAHORE: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned for further arguments the hearing of a petition challenging the newly promulgated local government law in the...
View ArticlePassco officials decry unfair recruitment, promotions
LAHORE: The Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Services Corporation (Passco) management has been accused of being involved in questionable actions during its recruitment process. The management...
View ArticleWanted: Two killed in ‘encounter’, one flees
MULTAN: Two men, the police said were wanted robbers, were killed here on Thursday in an alleged police encounter. One of their accomplices fled, police said. A police team, headed by the Cantonment...
View ArticleDoctors go on strike after colleague beaten
FAISALABAD: Dozens of doctors at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against police for its failure to arrest those responsible for beating up their colleague Dr...
View Article‘Police occupying rest houses for 20 years’
MULTAN: The Police Department has been allegedly occupying different rest houses of the Irrigation Department for the last two decades and is reluctant to vacate them despite several notices served...
View ArticleJustice: LHC calls for report in attempted rape, burning case
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday called for a judicial report on a media report that a 13-year-old girl was set on fire after a failed rape attempt. The LHC directed the Rahim Yar Khan...
View ArticleResource management: Water project targeting SMEs presented in Sweden
LAHORE: World Wide Fund Pakistan’s (WWF-Pakistan) project City-Wide Partnership for Sustainable Water Use and Water Stewardship in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of the Lahore was presented at...
View ArticleHouse robbery: Teen shot dead, father, brothers injured
FAISALABAD: A boy, in his teens, was shot dead during a robbery on Thursday when he tried to escape. His father and brothers, who tried to stop the robbers, were injured. Madina Town police said that...
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