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Weekly businesses: Vendors protest city govt’s order to end Sunday Bazaar
FAISALABAD: Scores of vendors staged a protest demonstration on Monday against the city district government over its order to end Sunday Bazaar being organised at the Pahariwali Ground in Batala...
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Seized properties: DHA told not to sell Gen (r) Ziauddin’s land
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday restrained the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) from selling the seized properties of former chief of army staff Gen (r) Ziauddin Butt and directed it to submit...
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Burning issue: Fuel stations demand bigger profits
MULTAN / BAHAWALPUR: Sale of petrol at over 3,700 petrol pumps in 16 south Punjab districts remained suspended on Monday due to a strike by the Pakistan Petroleum Dealers Association. Its members are...
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Walled City: Town officer pledges to stop construction of illegal plaza
LAHORE: The Ravi Town administration has pledged to stop the construction of a plaza next to a historic imambargah in the Walled City, after the 200-year-old building developed cracks in its...
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Medical waste: What cures you may end up killing you
LAHORE: The management of healthcare waste requires increased attention and diligence to avoid the substantial disease burden associated with poor practice, including exposure to infectious agents...
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Gender violence: ‘State of women in the Punjab is deplorable’
LAHORE: As many as 17 women a day reported having been the target of gender related violence between July and September, 2013, Aurat Foundation Resident Director Nasreen Zehra said, quoting figures...
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Metro Bus: Long queues form as tokens run short
LAHORE: Commuters using the Metro Bus service are facing long queues to buy tickets at stations because of a shortage of tokens issued for single journeys. The tokens are fitted with RFID chips and...
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CNG suspended: No gas for commercial activities in Punjab
LAHORE: Orders have been issued to indefinitely suspend gas supply to all CNG stations industrial sector and the electricity generation plants from Monday morning. The MD Sui Northern Gas Pipelines...
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Ashura violence: Another 19 suspects arrested
RAWALPINDI: The police on Monday claimed to have arrested 19 more persons in connection with the violence in Rawalpindi on Ashura. The accused were identified using TV footage and other video...
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PU hostel search: Administration hands over 15 illegal occupants to police
LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) administration on Tuesday searched two of its hostels and handed over 15 illegal occupants to the police, Express News reported on Tuesday. The search took place at...
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Allowances: Secretaries summoned over judicial staff pay
LAHORE: Justice Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the secretaries for the Establishment, Finance Ministry and Law Ministry over the non-payment of...
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YDA protest: ‘Medical officers recruited by PPSC must get training’
LAHORE: Medical officers (MOs) selected by the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) should have the right to get postgraduate training, the Young Doctors Association (YDA) demanded on Tuesday....
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Environment: ‘Six per cent pesticide samples found unfit for use’
MULTAN: Around 6.37 per cent pesticide samples in Bahawalpur and 4.8 per cent in Multan have been found unfit for use so far in 2013, an Agriculture Department press release said on Tuesday. Dr...
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Bad marriage: ‘Husband tried to make me abort baby’
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge has sought comments from the Kot Lakhpat SHO on a petition filed by a woman seeking a case against her husband for allegedly assaulting her and...
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Sapna Khan case: LHC tells police to interrogate ex-CM
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the police to interrogate former chief minister Dost Muhammad Khosa and others over the alleged kidnap and murder of actress Sapna...
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Sectarian violence: Cases registered against 106 protesters
FAISALABAD: Police on Tuesday registered cases against 106 people for rallying at the Clock Tower Chowk without prior permission and intending to instigate sectarian clashes. Police said the...
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Raid at boys’ hostel: 16 non-students rounded up from PU
LAHORE: An inspection team raided a Punjab University hostel on Tuesday morning and handed over to police 16 illegal residents found from the rooms of the office-bearers of the student wing of a...
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Grief and rage: Doctor’s clinic, house attacked
FAISALABAD: The family of a five-year-old boy who died at a clinic on Tuesday staged a demonstration in front of the clinic. They pelted stones at the clinic and the doctor’s house on Sheikhupura...
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Geared to protest: 100,000 participants targeted at PTI rally
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has tasked its district organisation to ensure the participation of 100,000 people in its protest rally on December 22. Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry said the...
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Nelson Mandela: ‘Finest son of humanity’ celebrated
LAHORE: The services and struggles of the late former South African president Nelson Mandela were eulogised in various events on Tuesday. Members of the Anjuman Mazareen Punjab gathered for a candle...
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