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Protests against police: Residents demonstrate against growing crime
FAISALABAD: Citizens staged a demonstration on Sheikhupura Road against police on Wednesday, to highlight growing street crime. The demonstrators chanted slogans and blocked the thoroughfare....
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Out of the way: 200 shopkeepers issued notices during clean-up drive
MULTAN: The district government on Wednesday issued notices to 200 shopkeepers in Hussain Agahi Market for returning to keeping their goods in front of their shops after the area was cleaned in the...
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Remembrance: ‘We forget underage helpers work in our homes’
LAHORE: “It is a tragic fact that Pakistan still does not have laws to protect domestic workers,” said Aslam Pervez Sahotra, chairman of the Human Liberation Commission Pakistan (HLCP), on Wednesday....
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Sportsman spirit: Youth festival sees heavy participation despite rain
LAHORE: Even rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of participants on the sixth day of the Punjab Youth Festival’s tehsil level games. As many as 77,610 young people participated in various competitions...
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Condemnation: Special persons want improved security for polio workers
MULTAN: Several disabled people demonstrated here on Wednesday to protest against the attacks on polio workers in Karachi on Tuesday. Demanding effective protection for polio teams, they said the...
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Making hay: Polio worker, husband arrested for faking attack
MULTAN: A polio worker and her husband were arrested in Bhakkar on Wednesday after police discovered that they had wrongly accused two men of attacking her. The men, who had been arrested after she...
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Union tactics: Teachers to not to boycott exam duties
LAHORE: A meeting of the Punjab Teachers Union decided on Wednesday not to boycott the grade 5 and grade 8 examinations. The PTU has been protesting against plan for district education authorities...
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Violation of rules: NAB takes up investigation against 11 medical colleges
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday started an inquiry against 11 medical and dental colleges for collecting tuition fee from students for the year 2013-2014 without...
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Energy crisis: ‘New coal power initiative to generate 6,000MW’
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday 6,000 megawatts of electricity will be generated through a new coal power initiative in the Punjab. Addressing a press conference at 180-H...
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Public health: 389 safe water taps proposed
LAHORE: A proposal for the installation of taps at sources in the water distribution network of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan and Gujranwala to lower contamination risk has been submitted to...
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Traffic tickets: Oil tanker owners warn of strike
FAISALABAD: The All Pakistan Oil Tankers Owners Association has threatened to launch a province-wide strike from January 27 against the frequent tickets being issued to their vehicles by traffic...
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WASA disposal station made functional
FAISALABAD: The Water and Sanitation Agency’s (Wasa) disposal station on Satiana Road started functioning on Wednesday. Wasa Managing Director Syed Zahid Aziz visited the disposal station and said it...
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Conserving history: Restoration of Satgarah Fort’s two gates nears completion
MULTAN: Seventy per cent work on the conservation and restoration of two gates of the 180-year-old Satgarah Fort in Okara has been completed, an Archaeology Department official said on Thursday. He...
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Law reform: New powers for LDA challenged
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday sought replies from the Lahore Development Authority (LDA), the provincial government and the local government secretary on a writ petition challenging...
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Exit control list: Gilani’s son seeks freedom to travel abroad
LAHORE: Justice Ijaz Ahmad of the Lahore High Court directed the Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) on Thursday to respond by February 1 to a petition by Syed Ali Musa Gilani, son of former primer Syed...
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Bloody rivalry: Two brothers shot dead over right of way
BAHAWALPUR: Two brothers were killed and 15 others were injured on Thursday in an exchange of fire between two groups in Qandani, some eight kilometers from Feroza near Rahim Yar Khan. The injured...
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Mass participation: Punjab Youth Festival tehsil competitions enter sixth day
LAHORE: As many as 82,880 people competed on the sixth day of the Punjab Youth Festival tehsil level games on Thursday. As many as 24,273 people moved to the next round. In Lahore’s Aziz Bhatti Town,...
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Lahore hacks: Civic hackathon open at LUMS on Friday
LAHORE: Over the next 72 hours the Smart Lab at the Lahore University of Management Sciences’ School of Science and Engineering will be buzzing with tech-energy as innovators, programmers, designers...
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Back in business: Patwari accused of graft reinstated
LAHORE: A patwari who was dismissed from service for “causing huge losses to the exchequer” and “insubordination” has been reinstated and might be posted to the same office where he was accused of...
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Some indispensables: Punjab seeks to keep federal officers in ‘violation of...
LAHORE: The provincial government has decided to retain the services of five Pakistan Postal Service (PPS) officers in violation of Civil Servants Rules 1973, The Express Tribune has learnt. Deputy...
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