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Talent festival: Artathon to open on Dec 22
LAHORE: The College of Arts and Design and University of the Punjab will host an art and media festival competition titled Artathon 2013 between December 22 and 25. Ayesha Khan, media co-ordinator of...
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Rehabilitation: ‘Govt support needed to help ‘slow’ children’
LAHORE: A delegation of the Foundation for Rehabilitation and Education of Slow Children (FRESH) called on Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar and briefed him about the organisation’s efforts for the...
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Financial qualification: ‘ACCA results speak of quality of instruction’
LAHORE: “The number of students applying to the ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) in Pakistan is encouraging. It shows that the country is striving to maintain quality of...
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Water supply: ‘Wasa officers taking it easy while people die’
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) to submit in court a report on tests by the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research laboratory...
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Law and order: Jafria Youth president’s brother shot dead
BAHAWALPUR: Armed assailants on Thursday shot dead the brother of the Jafria Youth divisional president in Rahim Yar Khan and injured his cousin. Police said the deceased, Asif Soomro, a brother of...
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Curriculum development: ‘Centralisation will cause more confusion’
LAHORE: The Federal Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) Ministry’s proposal to roll back the devolution of curriculum development to the provinces has been met with reservations by Punjab...
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Tourism department to launch ‘affordable’ south Punjab tours
MULTAN: “The Tourism Development Corporation Punjab (TDCP) has unveiled a set of proposals to allow people to explore and appreciate the top tourist sites in south Punjab,” Regional Manager Ashar...
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Development authority issues notice to Hasan Gardens
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Development Authority (FDA) on Thursday declared a private housing scheme in the city illegal and notified its developer to stop development work and sale of plots. An FDA...
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Corruption charges: Only God can save this country, court observes
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court judge remarked on Thursday that only God could save the country because politicians considered it their right to interfere in everything. Justice Mazahar Ali Naqvi made...
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Counter terrorism: Shahbaz says he cannot decide ATF's fate
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif told the inspector general of police on Thursday that the reservations of some police officers notwithstanding, he could not rule the federal government decision...
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Interfaith harmony: ‘Religious leaders can help tackle terrorism’
FAISALABAD: “The religious leaders should unite in the wake of recent incidents of terrorism in the country,” Commissioner Sardar Akram Javed said on Thursday. He was presiding over a meeting of...
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Four alleged terrorists arrested in Lahore
LAHORE: Law enforcement authorities on Friday arrested four suspected terrorists in Lahore, and recovered large quantity of explosives from their possession, Express News reported. The alleged...
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Lahore rape case: 100 days of justice denied
LAHORE: December 22 will mark the 100th day of justice denied. A five-year-old girl was raped and left outside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore on September 13. To date, police have neither...
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Consumer court: Shop sued over defective mobile phone
LAHORE: A consumer court on Friday issued notice to the proprietor of a mobile phone shop in a suit seeking Rs200,000 as damages. Muhammad Latif said he had purchased a mobile phone for Rs12,000 from...
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Panchayat members to be arrested for wani ruling
MULTAN: Kot Sultan police on Friday registered cases against eight panchayat members who had ordered a man to wani his two daughters to settle a kidnap case their brother was accused of. Police said...
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Out-of-the box art: Abdullah Qureshi’s style a new take on abstractionism,...
RAWALPINDI: Artwork of a young artist reveals compelling, out-of-the-box themes painted in enamel as opposed to the traditional media of acrylic, oil paint or water colours. The exhibition of the...
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Witness protection: Villagers protest after murder witness is killed
FAISALABAD: Scores of Chak 216-RB Muhammadwala residents staged a protest demonstration here on Friday after a lumberdar, who they said had been a witness in a murder case, was shot dead. The protest...
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Out of order: ‘You can keep your kidney stone for now’
LAHORE: Patients suffering from kidney, ureter or gallbladder stones have been facing problems getting appointments for lithotripsy, a non-invasive procedure involving the physical destruction of...
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‘231 factories are polluting canal water’
FAISALABAD: As many as 231 factories and mills in the district were polluting canal water with their chemical effluent being discharged into the water directly, Environment District Officer (DO) Mian...
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Illegal: LDA demolishes 15 buildings for violating by-laws
LAHORE: The staff of Lahore Development Authority’s Town Planning Wing on Friday demolished 15 buildings built in contravention of building by-laws as part of the LDA’s operation against illegal...
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