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Poor service: Cell numbers of officers to be changed
LAHORE: The Services and General Administration Department (S&GAD) has decided once again to change its mobile phone service providers. A senior official of the department said new subscriber...
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Young people: Two commit suicide
BAHAWALPUR: A boy and a girl committed suicide in separate incidents on Tuesday. Muhammad Ramazan, 18, swallowed poison after his parents scolded him for loitering around with his friends. He was...
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Crimes against children: Exorcist burns ill girl’s feet
DG KHAN / MULTAN: An exorcist on Tuesday night burned the feet of an 11-year-old child in an attempt to exorcise “her demons”. Separately, a grade seven student in Dera Ghazi Khan was beaten up badly...
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Baisakhi: Sikh pilgrims to arrive at Wagha today
LAHORE: Thousands of Indian Sikh yatris are expected to arrive in Pakistan through the Wagha Border on the eve of Baisakhi on Thursday (today). They will celebrate the festival at Nankana Sahib,...
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Taming South Punjab: Bureaucrats loathe Multan mini-secretariat idea
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s members in the subcommittee for South Punjab have decided to seek Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif’s intervention on their proposal to establish a branch of...
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Results recalled: PML-N MNA from Jhang disqualified for being a bank loan...
FAISALABAD: Election Tribunal Judge Javed Yousaf on Wednesday disqualified Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s MNA Sheikh Muhammad Akram, who was elected from Jhang (NA-89). The tribunal has directed the...
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Civil Hospital employees in Faisalabad take protest to new heights
FAISALABAD: Workers of Civil Hospital, Faisalabad climbed on top of a water tank, threatening to commit suicide if their salaries were not paid, Express News reported on Thursday. Around 100...
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Blast in Lahore market injures 17
LAHORE: At least 17 people were injured due to a blast in a market located in Pakistan Chowk area of Lahore early on Friday, Express News reported. According to Express News correspondent Noman...
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Baisakhi festival: Thousands of Sikh pilgrims arrive to a warm welcome
LAHORE: As many as 2,300 Sikh pilgrims arrived in Lahore on Thursday to celebrate the Baisakhi festival. “Pakistanis are wonderful hosts. This is my second trip to Pakistan and I am happy to see that...
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Wheat purchase: Complaint mechanism being set up for farmers
BAHAWALPUR: “The government is setting up a system through which farmers’ complaints regarding wheat purchase campaign would be relayed to the chief minister,” said Food Minister Bilal Yaseen on...
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Short-circuiting: Fire destroys shoe factory inventories
LAHORE: Inventory worth hundreds of thousands of rupees burned down in a fire that broke out in a shoe factory at Bund Road on Thursday. Rescue 1122 officials said the fire had erupted in one of the...
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Identity politics: Suppression causes separatism, Seraiki activist warns
LAHORE: ‘When peoples’ rights are violated, when they are subjugated and when their voices are not heard, there will be a reaction against the federation,” Pakistan Seraiki Party Senior Vice...
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Metro bus: ‘My land was acquired without compensation’
LAHORE: Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan of the Lahore High Court on Thursday summoned the Lahore division commissioner regarding a petition challenging land acquisition for the Metro Bus System track....
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Technical expertise: USAID and Intel sign MoU
LAHORE: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Intel Pakistan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Thursday committing to use technology to support education and...
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Seminar: ‘Educate your countrymen for social progress’
FAISALABAD: “Education and a commitment to upholding democratic norms can help end eudalism and poverty,” former Balochistan chief secretary Syed Shahid Hussain said on Thursday. He was addressing...
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Accountability: Release of kidnapping suspect challenged
FAISALABAD: Dozens of people surrounded the Faisalabad regional police officer’s (RPO) office on Thursday to protest the release of a suspect in a kidnapping case. The demonstrators chanted slogans...
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Embezzlement: PWD official granted bail
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Thursday granted bail to a Pakistan Public Works Department (PakPWD) executive engineer accused of embezzlement. The court directed the accused to submit surety bonds of...
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Money’s worth: Caller sues PCO owner over Re1
GUJRANWALA: A man on Thursday filed a complaint at a consumer court against a public call office (PCO) owner for giving him one rupee less credit than he had paid for. Farrukh Usman filed the...
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Rawalpindi declared polio-sensitive
RAWALPINDI: Along with countering dengue, the district government has to face another challenge of containing spread of polio virus after Rawalpindi was declared polio-sensitive on Thursday, along...
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NA-89 Jhang: PML-N MNA to challenge disqualification in SC
LAHORE: With the endorsement of the Pakistan Muslim League’s parliamentary board, disqualified MNA Sheikh Muhammad Akram is set to contest his removal in the Supreme Court as his party sees no “solid...
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