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Public health Polio campaign starts in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: A five-day polio vaccination drive commenced on Monday. A spokesman of the Health Department said 209,842 children up to the age of five years would be administered polio drops during the...
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Bicycle-tractor collision: Multan residents protest death of two children
MULTAN: Residents of Multan held a protest demonstration on Khanewal Road after two children were killed in a road accident, Express News reported on Monday. The accident occurred when a bicycle...
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Disputed land: ‘Eidgah yes, but no church on community land’
LAHORE: A group of local Muslims on Sunday razed an under construction church in Chak 3/4-L, Okara, allegedly over political rivalry, The Express Tribune has learnt. The Christians of Chak 3/4-L,...
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Lady Willingdon Hospital: Doctors’ hostel to be left alone, says govt
LAHORE: The government informed The Lahore High Court on Monday that it would not demolish any part of Lady Willingdon Hospital’s doctors’ hostel to construct the flyover at Azadi Chowk. Counsel for...
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Three ‘robbers’ killed in ‘shootout’ with police
LAHORE: Nawankot CIA police shot three people near Johar Town graveyard on Sunday night in what they called a shootout with robbers. DSP Malik Fayyaz said the robbers had snatched a motorcycle from a...
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Local religious leader killed in gun attack in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: The information secretary of the Ahle-Sunnat Wal Jamaat Rawalpindi chapter Mohammad Sohail Muavia was killed and two of his companions were injured when the car they were travelling in was...
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Priorities: ‘Make no compromise on quality of education’
FAISALABAD: “Quality education is a prerequisite for social progress and economic prosperity,” said Syed Baber Ali, pro-chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on Monday....
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‘Unlawful’ sackings: Nurses to sit-in in front of CM’s House today
LAHORE: The Young Nurses’ Association (YNA) has called for a sit-in in front of the Chief Minister’s House at 7-Club Road on Tuesday (today) to press for its demands. The announcement came on Monday...
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Ephedrine case: ‘Don’t take Gillani’s name off the ECL’
LAHORE: The Ministry of Interior and the Anti Narcotics Force on Monday told Lahore High Court that removing Syed Ali Musa Gillani’s name from the Exit Control List could affect trial court...
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Women only: Pink Bus Service to be re-launched soon
LAHORE: The Lahore Transport Company is set to re-launch its Pink Bus Service (for women) on two of the three routes that went out of service last year, LTC General Manager Faisal Naseer has said....
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Islamic banking: ‘Government to promote Islamic financing’
LAHORE: “The government has formed a steering committee to speed up work on the promotion of Islamic financing in Pakistan,” Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar said on Monday. Addressing a...
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Court wants to see Umar Akmal, traffic warden shake and make up
LAHORE: Cricketer Umar Akmal has been ordered to appear before the court on March 14, 2014 so that the court can see him and the traffic warden “effect” their reconcilliation. Judicial Magistrate...
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Waste management: LWMC to help dispose of hospital waste
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that the Health Department will seek help from the Lahore Waste Management Company in disposing of waste from public...
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Modern landscapes: Bringing street protests into the drawing room
LAHORE: Fatima Munir’s solo exhibition, The Art of Painting, opened at Taseer Art Gallery on Monday. It will continue till March 14. She has displayed nine modern day landscapes made using digital...
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Sexual assault: Man accused of raping boy arrested
FAISALABAD: Police claimed on Monday to have arrested a man accused of raping a four-year-old boy in Faisalabad. *Aslam, the boy’s father, a resident of Chak 196-RB, told the media that his son was...
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YouTube ban: IT minister’s reply still awaited
LAHORE: Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday observed that one should not look for content [on the internet] one does not approve of. He was hearing a petition challenging the...
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‘Misunderstanding’: Action ordered against warden rude to LHC judge
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the chief traffic officer to suspend a warden and take action against him for misbehaving with a judge of the Lahore High Court. Justice Mazhar Iqbal...
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Kidnap for ransom: Man, wife sentenced to life imprisonment
FAISALABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Ishtiaq Ahmad on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment on two counts to a couple convicted of kidnapping a girl for ransom in Tandlianwala. According to the...
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Public transport: Qing Qis to be reported to the Excise Dept
LAHORE: Lahore Transport Company Chairman Khwaja Ahmad Hassaan on Tuesday directed the officials concerned to compile the data collected during a recent survey of motorcycle rickshaws in the city and...
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Cultural identity: ‘Seraiki people need to fight for their rights’
MULTAN: “The Seraiki people need to do more to protect their cultural identity,” Auditor General of Pakistan Akhtar Buland Rana said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a symposium organised by the...
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