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Tourism scene: Chair lift projects at Fort Munro to start next month
MULTAN: Work on the chairlift project at Fort Munro is expected to begin next month. The project would be completed at an estimated cost of Rs350 million. Addressing a press conference on Thursday,...
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Hunger strike goes mobile: Young doctors, supporters protest on The Mall
LAHORE: Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) Punjab took out a rally on The Mall and staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Governor’s House on Wednesday. Members of Pakistan Peoples Party,...
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Bank Of Punjab: NAB ordered to withhold action on loan default
LAHORE: A full bench of Lahore High Court on Thursday stopped the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from taking action against 35 petitioning companies for defaulting on bank loans, till the next...
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Book launch: Govt urged not to soften Kashmir stance
LAHORE: Punjab University Vice Chancellor Mujahid Kamran urged the government on Thursday not to back out of Pakistan’s principled stance on Kashmir. He was addressing the launching ceremony of...
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Rights and obligations: University employees challenge law
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Thursday put off till March 14 the hearing on a petition of three PhD scholars and a former administrative assistant of the Punjab...
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Petty quarrel: Man shoots two ‘for denying his son swing’
BAHAWALPUR: A man shot two people on Wednesday for stopping his 15-year-old son from arguing with a man over the use of swings. One of them died on the spot. The man later shot himself in the foot....
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‘Only 19 of 900 kidnap complaints filed in 2012 were genuine’
BAHAWALPUR: A girl was caught by the police on Wednesday night within an hour of boarding a bus to Karachi. Police said the bus was stopped on the directions of the district police officer after the...
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Illegal detention: YDA files petition against police
LAHORE: Justice Ijazul Ahsan of the Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a detailed response from the government regarding a petition filed by the Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) seeking action...
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Priority subjects: ‘Media promoting desire to live like celebrities’
BAHAWALPUR: The participants at the three-day workshop that ended on Wednesday agreed that the extent of attention given to celebrity appearances on television amounted to visual exploitation of...
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Calling all book-worms: book fair comes to town
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif opened the five-day Lahore International Book Fair on Thursday at the Expo Centre. This year’s theme is Education for All and Books for Peace. Zubair Saeed,...
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New province: ‘I was not given a copy of the misc applications’
LAHORE: Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan of the Lahore High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing of petitions against the constitution of a parliamentary commission that has recommended Bahawalpur...
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Pay up: No free Metro Bus rides from Sunday
LAHORE: The government has decided to put an end to the rumpus created by free Metro Bus rides by imposing a flat rate of Rs20 as of Sunday, The Express Tribune has learnt. The Metro Bus Service...
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New Lahore mosque will have largest indoor capacity
LAHORE: The calligraphic inlays will resemble those of the Badshahi Masjid in Lahore. Tiles for indoor flooring will mirror the ones at Lahore’s Wazir Khan Masjid. Sandstone bricks for the courtyard...
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PPP leader Uzma Bukhari resigns from party, Punjab Assembly
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) member Uzma Bukhari has resigned from the Punjab Assembly and the party, Express News reported on Friday. She has resigned because of differences with the party....
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Valentine’s Day brawl: Students vandalise six college buses
GUJRAT: Police on Thursday arrested three people, including two college students, and registered a case against 25 people for vandalising six college buses and for a brawl on college premises....
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Intra-party Polls: 29 file nominations for PTI elections
LAHORE: As many as 29 party workers from 36 districts, who have expressed confidence in Ejaz Chaudhry for provincial leadership, have filed nomination papers for the positions of district president...
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Negotiating solutions: ‘YDA hunger strike could come to an amicable end’
LAHORE: General Cadre Doctors Association’s (GCDA) negotiations with Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) Punjab are expected to take a positive turn as progress has been made towards an acceptable...
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Last rites: Chamail Singh’s body remains at Jinnah Hospital
LAHORE: The body of a Sikh man, allegedly tortured to death at Kot Lakhpat Jail, has not been sent to India a month after his death. According to a Jinnah Hospital official, Chamail Singh’s body is...
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Mass defection: Nine legislators ditch PPP, join PML-N
LAHORE: In an en masse defection before the next general elections, 11 federal and provincial lawmakers from the Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid jumped ship on Friday to join...
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Free, fair polls not possible under present ECP: Qadri
GUJRANWALA: Free and fair elections are not possible under the present election commission, Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri said Friday. Speaking to reporters after a public...
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