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All blood banks to be registered in Punjab
LAHORE: Parliamentary Health Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi on Wednesday said all blood banks will be registered and regulated to ensure transfusion of healthy blood to patients. This would help prevent...
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PTI Elections: Unity Group takes top two slots
LAHORE: Unity Group’s Abdul Aleem Khan and Abdul Rasheed Bhatti have been elected president and general secretary, respectively, of the Lahore district chapter of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, according...
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Thousands of challans held up by prosecutors
LAHORE: The submission of thousands of challans and reports for cancellation of FIRs to the courts is being held up in the District Public Prosecution Department. Under the law, a prosecutor must...
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Healthcare: CPSP fellows to get training in Ireland
LAHORE: College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) on Wednesday announced that its post graduate trainees will be provided an opportunity to work and receive training in Ireland. CPSP...
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Diplomas awarded: ‘I hope the graduates make a difference’
LAHORE: “Kinnaird’s history is guided by the vision to empower women through education,” said Kinnaird College principal Rukhsana David at the 76th convocation of the college held at its Amphitheatre...
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District and sessions court: Cases of immigration fraud increasing
LAHORE: The district and sessions court is seeing an increasing number of petitions filed against immigration agents for alleged fraud, though in many cases, they appear to be a tactic used by...
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Of Mughals and Afghans ‘It was born in Lahore’
LAHORE: “It was born in Lahore, actually”, says Scottish historian and writer William Dalrymple of his newest and commercially successful book to date, when asked where and how he conceived the idea....
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Sarabjit Singh: ‘An extraordinary miscarriage of justice’
LAHORE: Advocate Awais Sheikh, the lawyer for Indian national Sarabjit Singh, is to launch a book on March 1 (Friday) explaining why he believes his client’s conviction and imprisonment is “an...
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Hajj scam case: FIA director demands arrest of Hamid Saeed Kazmi
RAWALPINDI: FIA investigators and prosecutors filed a request with the special judge in the Central Rawalpindi Court on Thursday, Express News reported. FIA Investigators claimed to have found more...
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Chaudhry Shujaat 'unopposed' president of PML-Q
LAHORE: Chief of Pakistan Muslim League- Quaid (PML-Q) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has again been elected as president of the party unopposed, Express News reported on Thursday. Simultaneously, Mushahid...
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Online survey: ‘Rule of law, human rights and gender inequalities worry most...
FAISALABAD: An online survey conducted by the Directorate of Students Affairs at the Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF) has revealed that issues pertaining to rule of law, human rights...
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Freedom of information: Draft law ‘too restrictive’
LAHORE: The draft freedom of information law allows the government and its agencies to classify anything they want to be exempt from being made public, without explanation as to why they are doing...
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Another Province: Federation issued notice on petition
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notice to the federation of Pakistan on a petition challenging the report of a parliamentary commission to form another province. The court scheduled...
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Khateeb Badshahi Masjid lends support to polio immunisation campaign
LAHORE: Khateeb Badshahi Masjid Mulana Abdul Khubair Azad on Friday said that no un-Islamic material had been utilised in the manufacturing of polio immunisation drops, in a lecture on polio...
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Declared dangerous: 4 areas identified as potential sites for relocation of...
LAHORE: Four sites are being considered for the relocation of 7,850 illegal industrial units set up in residential areas across Lahore. District Officer (Industries) Azhar Hussain told The Express...
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Reckless driving: Road accidents leave three dead, seven injured
JAHANIAN: As many as three people died and seven people were injured in several road accidents. A bus travelling on Sargodha-Lahore Road ran over a child who was trying to cross the road near Dhodha...
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Challans submission: Offices of magistrates’ staff open after 3 days
LAHORE: The offices of staff of five magistrates were unlocked on Friday, three days after being locked by a group of lawyers in protest against an order of the district and sessions judge mandating...
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Case for prohibition: 11, including bootlegger, die from tainted liquor
MULTAN: At least 11 people died in Bhakkar on Friday apparently from drinking tainted liquor. Seven others, including two people who are alleged to have provided the liquor, were taken to district...
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Third party accounting: Laptop, Ujala and Metro Bus projects to be examined
LAHORE: The Punjab government and Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Thursday. Under this MoU, TIP would review the rules and regulations and the...
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Civil Defence Day: Volunteers’ stipend may be raised
LAHORE: The city district government on Friday formed a committee to look if there was room legally for the district coordination officer to raise the daily payments made to Civil Defence volunteers....
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