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Breaking bread: Wheat procurement drive to start this month
LAHORE: The government will procure wheat on a support price and protect the interests of small farmers, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday. The chief minister has approved the wheat...
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Olympics ambition
LAHORE: Winner of the Youth Festival’s Lahore Boxing Event, Shah Zaib, has expressed his wish to participate in the Olympics. “I knew I wanted to be a boxer since childhood. I began my journey by...
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Chief Minister’s gifts: Int’l standard pool nearly complete
LAHORE: Sports Board DG Usman Anwar on Monday visited a swimming pool under-construction at the Nishtar Park Sports Complex. Work on the swimming pool is 90% complete. He said the 50m international...
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Radicalisation: ‘Militancy directly linked to poor governance’
LAHORE: Support for militancy has been linked to poor governance in areas including Malakand Divison in a report unveiled by the Governance Institutes Network International (GINI) on Monday. Titled...
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Revisiting policy: LDA to allow annual property commercialisation
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority has decided to allow annual commercialisation of properties for 10 years as part of its business-friendly commercialisation policy initiative. A survey of...
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‘Watch where you’re going’: Prisons SP ordered to produce detained foreigner...
MULTAN: Multan bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday directed the Dera Ghazi Khan Prisons superintendent to produce a German national, arrested on March 16, in court on Tuesday. Kim Laura Schweer...
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‘Inconvenient’ delay: Chief justice admonishes ODGCL lawyer
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday admonished an Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (ODGCL) lawyer for suggesting the court was delaying a ruling on some cases....
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‘Lawful’ behaviour: Litigant faints from beating by lawyers
LAHORE: Several lawyers beat up a litigant over his alleged misbehaviour with the security staff of the Lahore High Court Bar Association on Monday. The security staff had stopped him from entering...
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Hell hath no fury: Woman accused of murder escapes police custody
MULTAN: A woman accused of murdering her husband two days ago, managed to flee from Abdul Hakeem police station on Monday. Abdul Hakeem SHO Gul Muhammad told The Express Tribune that Kausar Bibi, 41,...
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Corporal punishment: Principal and administrator get bail
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge granted bail to two people, including a female principal of The Educators School. A complaint had been filed against them for allegedly making the...
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Women caucus: ‘Amendments to Child Marriage Act on the cards’
LAHORE: “The law of inheritance for women was always there and it is unfortunate that we need a new law for its implementation,” women caucus convener Uzma Bukhari said on Monday. She was addressing...
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Shahbaz Sharif takes notice of Lahore blaze
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took notice of a fire that engulfed the fourth floor of a building near Kalma Chowk, Lahore, Express News reported on Tuesday. The fire, which reportedly...
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Accident in Hafizabad leaves 6 dead, injures 14 others
HAFIZABAD: A collision between a truck and a bus in Hafizabad left four people dead on the spot on Tuesday, Express News reported. Sixteen others were injured in the collision. The injured were taken...
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On death row: Joseph Colony blasphemy convict files appeal
LAHORE: Blasphemy convict Sawan Masih on Tuesday filed an appeal before the Lahore High Court challenging the death sentence awarded to him by the sessions court. The appeal casts doubts on the...
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Miniature today: ‘Art is a platform for my protest’
LAHORE: A group of miniature artists Hadia Zahra, Tahir Ali Sadiq and Ejaz Saeed titled A Terrible Beauty highlighted the significance of older miniature technique on their art, along with...
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Art and flowers exhibit draws large crowd
MULTAN: More than 180 kinds of flowers and 110 art pieces are featured in the Spring Festival that kicked off at the Company Garden on Tuesday. The festival has been organised by the Cantonment Board...
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Sports Festival: Five countries to participate in baseball tournament
LAHORE: As many as five countries, including India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Tunisia and Iraq, have confirmed their participation in the baseball tournament of the Punjab International Sports Festival...
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Education journalism: Why education is neglected in the media
LAHORE: “Education is one of the most neglected sectors in media, as journalists often consider it boring to report on the subject”, said former education minister Mian Imran Masood at a journalism...
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Public participation: ‘Let’s eliminate dengue fever together’
LAHORE: “Public awareness is our most important weapon against dengue fever,” Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique said on Monday. “It is only through public participation that...
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Price control: CM orders reduction in transport fares
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed departments concerned to take effective measures to bring down transport fares and the prices of essential items. He said the government was...
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