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Captivity: Prisoners released from Bagram in Peshawar
LAHORE: Counsel for the six Pakistani prisoners released from Bagram Prison told the Lahore High Court on Thursday that they were being kept in humiliating and unsanitary conditions at the Peshawar...
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Child abuse: Child maid tortured
GUJRANWALA: A nine-year-old house maid was beaten up and burned allegedly by her employer. The girl’s parents told police that their daughter worked at the house of Noreen Bibi. They said her husband...
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Law and order: Top Rawalpindi cops to face accountability, says Sanaullah
LAHORE: A special committee constituted by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been tasked with framing charges against 10 Rawalpindi police officers, whose negligence led to Ashura violence, Law...
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Public health: Search committees to pick health managers
LAHORE: “The Health Department will form search committees to appoint health executive district officers and medical superintendents on the pattern of committees formed to pick vice chancellors and...
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Man killed in shootout with police
MULTAN: A man was killed in a shootout with the police on Thursday. Bahauddin Zakariya police said deceased was identified as Zehri Mohana, a wanted robber. They said Muhammad Ali and Muhammad...
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Extortion: Kidnapped man found killed after ransom payment
FAISALABAD: Kidnappers killed a man kidnapped a week ago and abandoned the body in a field on Thursday despite payment of ransom, Chak Jhumra police said. Three suspect kidnappers, including a woman,...
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Remembering the affected: 30 houses provided for flood affected
MULTAN: Aashiq Hussain, 54, had lost all his land and cattle in the 2010 floods. Having survived on temporarily sources of income and a rented house in Kot Addu since then, Friday brought good news...
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Kidnap for ransom: Eight-year-old abducted four days ago found killed
BAHAWALPUR: The body of an eight-year-old boy abducted four days ago was found lying in a sugarcane field on Friday. Police said some passers-by had seen the body and informed the police and the...
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Artistic evolution: Tracing roots of art and architecture
LAHORE: The conference on Cultural Roots of Art and Architecture of the Punjab, organised by the Trust for History, Art and Architecture Pakistan and University of Gujrat, in collaboration with the...
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THAAP Conference: ‘Parents no longer speak Punjabi with children’
LAHORE: “Heer is not just a character, it is a movement…we must understand our roots before exploring western feminism,” said Fakhra Hassan. She was reading her research paper, The Intellectual...
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Crime check: Police Command and Control Centre’s building inaugurated
LAHORE: “Digital monitoring of the city through a command and control centre will help the police keep a watchful eye on criminal elements,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said at the foundation...
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Petition for Rambo Rajkumar: Court directs AGP to check where the film was shot
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday directed the Attorney General of Pakistan to verify from the Pakistani embassy in India whether the shooting of the film Rambo Rajkumar took place in...
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Law and order: ‘Appoint a home minister to end confusion’
LAHORE: An opposition member in the provincial assembly (PA) asked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday to either appoint a home minister or himself assume charge of the department instead of...
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Head of ASWJ in Punjab shot dead
LAHORE: A provincial head of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot dead in Lahore on Friday. Maulana Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, the chief of ASWJ’s Punjab chapter, was killed after unidentified gunmen...
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ASWJ protests killing of provincial leader in various cities
RAWALPINDI: Members of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) are protesting the killing of Maulana Shamsur Rehman Muawiya, the chief of ASWJ’s Punjab chapter in Lahore on Saturday, Express News reported. An...
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Accident: Eight of a family perish in DG Khan
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Eight members of a family were presumed dead on Saturday when a motorcycle rickshaw they were travelling in plunged into a canal. Another four members of the family were rescued while...
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Economic ties: Finns celebrate Independence Day
LAHORE: Finnish Ambassador Rauli Suikkanen hosted a dinner here on Saturday to mark the Independence Day of the Republic of Finland and called for deeper economic ties between Finland and Pakistan,...
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People-to-people ties: US investing $40m a year in exchange programmes
LAHORE: More than 250 alumni of various US government-sponsored exchange programmes participated in the Pakistan-US Alumni Network’s (PUAN) annual Lahore alumni reunion here on Friday. The event was...
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THAAP conference: ‘Mughal art transcends traditional media’
LAHORE: The discourse on language, culture, arts and architecture continued on the second day of the Trust for History, Art and Architecture, Pakistan’s (THAAP) conference. The papers presented on...
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Social barriers: ‘Law to protect disabled people useless until enforced in...
FAISALABAD: Persons with disabilities face many barriers that prevent them from participating in public life, Association of Women for Awareness and Motivation executive secretary Naseem Anthony said...
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