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‘Ghost schemes’: FIA starts probe into public spending
LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Circle of the FIA has started a probe into ‘ghost’ projects in under the Peoples Works Programme-II. According to Public Works Department, up to Rs340 million has been...
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Hearing of YouTube ban deferred till March 11
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will take up the matter of reopening YouTube on March 11 and not next week, as was promised last week. A division bench of the LHC on February 25 had announced that the...
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Driven by poverty: Mother kills her two children in Lahore
LAHORE: The police have arrested a couple in Johar Town on Wednesday for killing their two children – an eight-month-old baby boy and a two-year-old girl – after a quarrel over monetary constraints....
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Explosion: Two boys killed in DG Khan blast
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Two boys died and their grandmother was injured in an explosion at their house in Basti Bolani in sub-district Taunsa. Police sources said that the explosive material was kept in a...
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Metro bus consultant: Parliamentary panel objects to NESPAK’s selection
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Wednesday questioned the selection of National Engineering Services Pakistan (Nespak) as consultant for the twin cities’ metro bus project without inviting...
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Vacant post: LHC laments ‘indifference’ towards orders
LAHORE: Taking notice of lack of compliance of its order, the Lahore High Court on Wednesday criticised government. Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan said the government remained indifferent to orders...
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Minimum wage: Brick kiln owners threaten lock-out
FAISALABAD: More than 600 brick kiln owners on Wednesday threatened to shut down their kilns if forced to pay their workers Rs740 for making 1,000 bricks, the minimum wage notified by the government....
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Beijing +20 Review: Women Empowerment Package 2014 to be announced on March 8
LAHORE: The Women Empowerment Package 2014 will be announced on March 8, Provincial Minister for Population Welfare Begum Zakia Shahnawaz said on Tuesday. She said the Punjab Youth Policy 2012 and...
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Fixing splinters: Lack of image intensifiers causing problems at Mayo
LAHORE: The X-ray Image Intensifier is functional at only one public hospital in Lahore. Only Mayo Hospital has a functional machine and patients from other teaching hospitals have to be sent to Mayo...
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Public health: Cleanliness week to be observed from March 10
LAHORE: Cleanliness week will be observed in all public sector teaching hospitals as well as district headquarters and tehsil headquarters hospitals and rural health centres from March 10 to 16....
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Youth festival: Punjab University takes women’s hockey title
LAHORE: Hockey, taekwondo, basketball, football and athletics competitions were held as part of the inter-division games of the Punjab Youth Festival on Wednesday. Lahore defeated Multan 2-0 in the...
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Academic achievements: Lahore students shine on in the world
LAHORE: As many as 120 students from Lahore have secured top positions in the Cambridge International Exams 2013. The figure last year had been 94. As many as 200,000 students had appeared in the...
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Opposition: PTI demands local govt elections
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhary on Wednesday urged the government to announce the schedule for local government elections. He said there had been no local...
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No service: Jammers in Adiala Jail don’t just disrupt prisoners’ calls
RAWALPINDI: Jammers installed in Adiala Jail to block communication between high-profile prisoners with their accomplices are disrupting cellular phone services in surrounding localities,...
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Love marriage: Man’s family attacked by wife’s angry brothers
FAISALABAD: Some family members of a girl, who had married for love, on Tuesday shot her husband’s brother dead and set fire to their house, injuring four of his family members. Muhammad Amir*, a...
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Resisting ‘development’: Privatisation of WAPDA unsettles employees
RAWALPINDI: Hundreds of power utility company employees staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday on Rawalpindi’s main artery against the proposal to privatise the Water and Power Development...
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Turks welcome: ‘The metro-bus project is a glorious example of Pak-Turk...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that after the success of the ‘modern system of cleanliness’ in Lahore, the solid waste management in the provincial metropolis would be introduced in...
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Murdering babies
Terrible events take place in our country each day. Some are worse than others. The murder of two infants, a girl aged two years and a boy aged eight months, in Lahore’s Johar Town area by their own...
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Two men arrested, weapons seized
MULTAN: Cantonment police on Wednesday arrested two men for bringing weapons to the Lahore High Court. ASI Shafaqat Ali told newsmen that his team was on duty at the court premises. when a mini-van...
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Women’s day: ‘Laws lacking to punish violence against women’
FAISALABAD: “There are dozens of undefined crimes in Pakistan that the government needs to legislate about. Domestic violence and violence by state officials are two examples of crimes against which...
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