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Walled City: LHC issues stay order on illegal construction
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday restrained the Punjab government from constructing buildings in the Walled City in violation of rules. Justice Abid Aziz Sheikh issued the order after a...
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Grey traffic: FIA arrest three for operating illegal gateway exchange
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency’s National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Friday raided a house in Defence and confiscated an illegal...
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Piling up bills: FESCO tells govt departments to pay up or lose connections
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has issued notices to chronic defaulters to deposit dues by April 25 otherwise their connections will be severed. FESCO Chief Commercial...
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Anti-polio campaign: Polio drops for children travelling from Peshawar
LAHORE: The Punjab government has initiated the implementation of its new strategy to eradicate polio from the province, Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique said on Friday....
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Threat of violence: 17 injured in cracker blast in Ichhra
LAHORE: At least 17 people suffered injuries in a blast in front of a shop in Ichhra early on Friday morning. The explosive had been planted on a bicycle, Operations DIG Rana Abdul Jabbar told The...
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Disappearances: 21 bags go missing during inspection of ballots
LAHORE: In the process of inspecting NA 124’s polling record, 21 bags went missing. The election commission has sought one week for their recovery. The inspection of 243 polling bags out of 246 has...
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Work on coal power plants in Sahiwal to start in May
LAHORE: Work on a collaborative project between the Punjab government and Chinese companies to set up two coal-based power plants of 660 megawatts each in Sahiwal will be started in May, in light of...
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Heinous crime: Girl abducted and raped
FAISALABAD: A girl was allegedly raped by two people in Chak 630 GB, Lundianwala, on Friday. Ghulam Fareed, the girl’s uncle, told the media that the men abducted the girl on her way to the market....
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Behind bars: Man accused of killing father of three blind children arrested
FAISALABAD: After four weeks of looking for the murderer of a man killed in February, police have managed to arrest him from Lahore, City Police Officer Dr Haider Ashraf told media on Friday. Dr...
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(Dis)order at the court: Policeman files complaint against court staff
LAHORE: Islampura police ‘arrested’ a court naib of an additional district and sessions judge after an assistant sub inspector was slapped by a lawyer outside a courtroom, The Express Tribune has...
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Sense of deprivation: ‘Stop treating us as second-class citizens’
BAHAWALPUR: “Instead of the restoration of Bahawalpur province and the creation of a southern Punjab province the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had promised in its election campaign, they have...
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Judge throws out attempted murder case against 9-month old baby
LAHORE: A judge threw out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby on Saturday, lawyers said, in a case that cast a spotlight on the country’s dysfunctional justice system. Baby Musa...
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Rejected friendship?: Man shoots woman, commits suicide in Gujranwala
GUJRANWALA: A man shot a woman at her house in Gujranwala over what police claimed to be rejection of friendship, Express News reported on Saturday. The incident took place in the Alipur Chattha area...
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Van topples over in Sheikhupura: 6 dead, 8 others injured
SHEIKHUPURA: A passenger van toppled over on Sargodha Road in Sheikhupura claiming six lives and injuring at least eight others, Express News reported on Saturday. The van was on its way to...
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Punjab Youth Festival: ‘Govt made false claims of records’
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Shaukat Basra has filed a petition in the Lahore High Court, stating that the Punjab had made false claims that new records had been set and would be acknowledged in...
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Dengue season: High rainfall increasing risk, says Sarwar
RAWALPINDI: The chances of breeding of dengue mosquitoes have increased due to unexpectedly high rainfall, therefore all government departments should be prepared to tackle the disease according to...
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Black sheep: Lawyers’ leaders set three-point resolution
LAHORE: A divisional convention of bar representatives organised by the Lahore Bar Association on Saturday passed a resolution demanding that the Lahore High Court chief justice withdraw words he had...
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Collaboration: Sanitation project
BAHAWALPUR: A meeting held at Bahawalpur DCO’s office on Saturday approved a sanitation project with the collaboration of United Nation’s Global Sanitation Fund. The project is to be implemented in...
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Forged and fake: PMDC officers accused of ‘deceiving’ MNAs
LAHORE: The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination has written to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) asking them to register a case against some officers, officials...
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Urban construction: Adviser for bus terminal project to be hired soon
LAHORE: The Lahore Transport Company is likely to hire a transaction adviser, on a public-private-partnership mode, for the construction of a state-of-the-art bus terminal near the City railway...
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