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Cheers to tears: Groom shot dead by ‘friends’ during mehndi celebration
FAISALABAD: Wedding celebrations turned to mourning after the groom was apparently shot dead accidently by his friends who took to celebrating by firing shots in the air at the rasm-i-hina on Friday...
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Assault: Shots fired at actress Meera’s house
LAHORE: Unidentified gunmen fired in the air in front of actress Meera’s house in Defence early in the morning on Saturday before they fled from the scene. Cantonment SP Sarfraz Virk said the...
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Assaulted in India: Pakistani student reunites with family
LAHORE: A Pakistani student, who was attacked and beaten in an Indian university’s hostel room last week, has reunited with his family. “I am quite happy to be back home – and on my feet. This is...
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Proving innocence: Petitioner seeks more of Bhagat Singh records
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge fixed May 19 for preliminary arguments on a petition seeking attested documents from May 5, 1930 to September 10, 1930. in the murder case against...
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Out-of-school: PEF to facilitate evening classes for child workers
LAHORE: The Punjab Education Foundation will launch a project running evening classes for child workers. This will enable them to study free of cost up to matric in the evening, when they are not...
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Prison conditions: LHC directs govt to complete jail buildings
LAHORE: Lahore High Court has directed the Punjab government to complete construction of eight jails by June 30, 2015. Justice Muhammad Farrukh Irfan Khan issued the order on a petition filed by Rida...
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Abuse of power: TEVTA not acting against ‘corrupt’ college staff
LAHORE: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) seems reluctant to act against some officials, including the principal of the Government College of Technical Education,...
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No staff: PFA establishment in Faisalabad likely to be delayed
LAHORE: The extension of the jurisdiction of the Punjab Food Authority to Faisalabad is likely to be delayed. The authority was allowed by its board on Tuesday to hire staff up to BS-15 during a...
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Possible flash floods: District governments devise Monsoon plans
LAHORE / SARGODHA: City district governments in the province have devised measures to control possible flash floods, especially in the known vulnerable areas, in the province. Sargodha district has...
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Starting over: Minister promises recruitments on merit
LAHORE: Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique said on Saturday all recruitments in Pakistan Railways would be made on merit and no political pressures would be allowed. Rafique was talking to...
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Energy crisis: Dasu Dam construction to begin soon, says CM
LAHORE: “The construction of Dasu Dam will start soon at a cost of $4 billion,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday. He said the government wanted to resolve the energy crisis and had...
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Caring for children
The Punjab government has ordered free healthcare at all government hospitals for the children and teenagers housed at the Child Welfare and Protection Bureau (CWPB) in Lahore after a visit to the...
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Welfare project: LGH gets water filtration plant
LAHORE: A newly installed tube-well and a water filtration plant had become operational at the Lahore General Hospital (LGH), said Anjum Habib Vohra, principal of the Post Graduate Medical Institute...
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Taking sides: ‘We oppose anti-army agenda’
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) senior leader Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said the PML’s successful rallies to express solidarity with the Pakistani Army had proved that the people were with...
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No take-off: 6 passengers offloaded for having fake papers
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) immigration staff at Allama Iqbal International Airport have offloaded and apprehended six passengers when they were trying to travel abroad on forged...
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Up in arms: Women block road to protest ‘police excesses’
FAISALABAD: Scores of residents of Chak 282-GB staged a protest demonstration against the Rodala Road police for allegedly beating up women during a raid at their house. The protesters gathered at...
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Property dispute: Man, sister, nephew killed in Tandlianwala
FAISALABAD: Three people, including a man and his sister, were shot and killed over an old enmity in Tandlianwala on Sunday, police said. They said Suleman Khan, a resident of village 418 GB, was at...
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Encounter: Hostages freed as police kill five ‘criminals’
FAISALABAD: Five people were killed in a shootout with the police on Sunday after they killed three men and took two hostages. Police said, some men in a white car shot and killed Jan Wali Khan,...
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Advice for govt: ‘Self-reliance must to overcome crisis’
LAHORE: Solution to major issues confronting Pakistan, including lawlessness, terrorism, poverty and unemployment, was in self-reliance and getting rid of the International Monetary Fund and World...
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Performance check: Inflation taking its toll on poor, says Wattoo
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Punjab chapter president Manzoor Ahmad Wattoo said on Sunday that rocketing prices of essential items had been taking its toll on the poor. “The prices are going...
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