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Load shedding: Grid station taken over by power rioters
MULTAN: Following 22 hours of load shedding at stretch, a mob of angry citizens from Taunsa and adjoining areas attacked Taunsa Grid Station on Monday. The staff at the grid station fled. Their cell...
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Built heritage: ‘WCLA team will try to preserve what remains’
LAHORE: Building regulations for the Walled City of Lahore Authority have been formulated under the supervision of heritage lawyer Khurram Chughtai, consultant for the WCLA, after a delay of nearly...
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Overseas Pakistanis Conference: Law to be tabled soon on expats’ complaints
LAHORE: The Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission (POPC) will be the most empowered platform for overseas Pakistanis to discuss their issues and register complaints that fall in the provincial...
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Former chief selector takes PCB to court
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi and others on a petition filed by former Chief Selector and Chairperson of National...
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Comprising on security? Transport convoys between G-B and Rawalpindi cut down...
KOHISTAN: After five days of protests, transporters of Kohistan and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) conditionally ended their strike on Tuesday after the local administration agreed to reduce the number of...
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Man killed, son injured for demanding salary
FAISALABAD: A landlord on Tuesday beat and injured a tractor driver and killed his father when they asked for a salary for ploughing his fields in Dijkot, police said. They said Muhammad Irfan, a...
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Achieving targets: Pakistan to get $225 million to meet MGDs
LAHORE: The Global Fund has announced that it will provide Pakistan $255 million to control malaria, HIV and tuberculosis. The funds will be spent to control and eradicate these diseases in order to...
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Pakistan Cricket Board: Former chief selector seeks contempt of court charges
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notices to Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Najam Sethi and others on a petition by Muhammad Ilyas, former chairman of National Selection Committee. The...
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Capital punishment: Man gets death for rape and murder
FAISALABAD: A court on Tuesday awarded the death sentence to a man for rape and murder of a boy. A Jaranwala additional sessions judge awarded death sentence to Nadim Akhtar. Akhtar was a resident of...
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Assaulted: Girl raped at gunpoint
FAISALABAD: A girl was raped on Tuesday in Jaranwala Saddar, police said. They said a man, identified as Jaffar Baig, broke into a house in Chak 100 GB and raped her at gunpoint. Her uncle Aslam...
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Rehabilitating addicts: LHC takes notice of govt’s ‘casual attitude’
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Tuesday took notice of the ‘casual attitude’ of the bureaucracy towards the rehabilitation of drug addicts, and summoned the Excise and Taxation secretary and Anti...
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Uniform licence plates: Excise Dept for changes in law
LAHORE: The Excise and Taxation Department plans to propose amendments to the Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965, to introduce penalties aimed at discouraging unauthorised persons making licence plates or...
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Oral hygiene awareness: UHS students shine at international conference
LAHORE: A six-member delegation of the University of Health Sciences showed commendable participation at the second International Conference and Exhibition on Dental and Oral Health held last week in...
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The vanishing act: The curious case of plaque removal at CSA
LAHORE: The removal of a plaque at Civil Services Academy (CSA) Lahore has upset the trainee officers so much that they have voiced their disapproval at social media websites and passed a resolution...
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Workforce development: Marginalised youth being trained in marketable skills
LAHORE: “Besides being taught how to stitch and design dresses, we have also been taught to read and write. I am extremely proud of the fact that I can write my own name in Urdu.” 16-year-old Sehrish...
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Eradicating polio: ‘No polio patients reported in Punjab this year’
LAHORE: Chief Secretary Naveed Akram Cheema said on Tuesday no polio cases had been reported in the province this year. He said this reflected good performance on the part of relevant departments....
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In solidarity with army: Rallies staged in Lahore, Islamabad
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Approximately 500 workers of Sunni Tehreek and Namoos-e-Risalat Mohaz carried out a rally from the Lahore Press Club to Geo News’ office at Davis Road on Tuesday. The protestors...
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Rewards for justice: Bounty set for 43 criminals’ arrest
LAHORE: The Punjab government has fixed rewards for the arrest of 43 people it has identified as hardened criminals and gangsters. They include some members of Chotu Gang of Rajanpur. The biggest...
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Judge wants girl produced in court in bail case
LAHORE: A judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday directed Sargodha police to produce a girl who had married a Christian man after converting from Islam to Christianity. Justice Mazahar Ali...
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Inspiring Insights: ‘Women’s role can improve communities, even countries’
LAHORE: Speakers at a conference titled Inspiring Insights on Wednesday discussed various ways women can accomplish their career ambitions and maximise their potential as existing and emerging...
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