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Fiscal priorities: Maximum funds for public welfare in budget says CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday that maximum funds would be allocated for public welfare projects in the provincial budget for the fiscal year 2014-15. The chief minister said...
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Picnic turns tragic: Bodies of two youth pulled out of Chenab
MULTAN: Bodies of two brothers who drowned in the Chenab river in Muzaffargarh district on Sunday night were recovered on Monday. Imran, 22, and Ramazan, 20, had gone for a picnic together with six...
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Law and order: Traders protest against colleague’s killing
FAISALABAD: As many as two dozen traders of a fruit and vegetable market observed a shutter-down strike on Monday in protest against the killing of a vegetables dealer in a robbery. They said they...
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Jain temples: Court seeks govt’s reply by June 17
LAHORE: Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Monday expressed displeasure over the attitude of the chief secretary for not meeting Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaafri in connection with his...
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Recognition: PU teacher honoured
LAHORE: Pakistan Institution of Engineers has awarded Punjab University Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology Professor Zia Chaudhary the National Excellence Award for 2014. Chaudhary...
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Holding grudges: Sons kill mother for leaving their father 30 years ago
MULTAN: Two brothers shot and killed their mother on Monday after she insisted on coming to live with them after the death of her second husband. The woman had separated from her first husband 30...
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Disqualification: Former PML-Q MNA acquitted in dual nationality case
LAHORE: District and Sessions Judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmad on Monday acquitted former Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid National Assembly member Begum Shahnaz Sheikh in a dual nationality case filed against...
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Employment benefits: Secretariat workers go on pen-down strike
LAHORE: The Punjab Civil Secretariat Employees’ Association on Monday observed a two-hour pen down strike for acceptance of their demands. PCSEA press secretary Karim Awan said all employees from BS...
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Up in arms: Protesters lament society’s apathy in Farzana’s murder
LAHORE: More than 10,000 women in the country face violence of various kinds each year and more than 1,000 are killed in the name of honour…that doesn’t even include the cases that go unreported,”...
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‘Honour’ killing: Sister says ‘husband’ killed Farzana
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdul Qayyum Khan on Monday fixed a petition for hearing on June 3 seeking a case against Farzana Bibi’s husband. The petition has been filed by sister...
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Localens Photography Competition: Amateur photographers at their best
LAHORE: The Express Tribune’s second exhibition of the Localens Photography Competition opened at the Zahoorul Ikhlaq Gallery, National College of Arts, on Monday. The exhibit featured the work of 30...
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Duped or delusional? Court asks for petitioner’s psychiatric check up
LAHORE: Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik of Lahore High Court on Monday directed the Services Hospital medical superintendent to constitute a medical board to check the mental capacity of petitioner Eng...
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Creating opportunities: Youth Internship plan set to continue
LAHORE: The provincial government is planning to continue its Youth Internship Programme during the next financial year, The Express Tribune has learnt. The programme aims to impart productive skills...
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Electricity-for-cash scam: Top LESCO officials arrested for abuse of power,...
LAHORE: Top officials of Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) were arrested on Monday on a host of charges, including that of misuse of authority and accepting bribes. Lesco’s Chief Executive...
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Public health: Samanabad Hospital to have 250 beds says Sanaullah
FAISALABAD: Minister for Law and Local Government Rana Sanaullah Khan said on Monday that the Government General Hospital in Samanabad would be upgraded from 50 to 250 beds at a cost of Rs1 billion....
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Doctors re-attach hand of suspected thief
MULTAN: Doctors have re-attached the hand of a man who accused the police of chopping it off after arresting him for allegedly stealing electrical cables in Vehari near Multan, officials said on...
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War on terror: Meeting sought between released Pakistanis, families
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday sought a reply from the Interior Ministry on a petition that said it had violated the court’s order by not arranging a meeting between the families and 10...
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Law and outlaws: CIA inspector, six accomplices arrested for kidnap
GUJRAT: An inspector of the CIA police and six of his alleged accomplices were arrested on Tuesday for kidnapping two men for ransom. Cousins Yasir and Khalil, residents of Kharian, had written an...
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Shootout:Kidnappers killed, man recovered
BAHAWALPUR: Police on Tuesday killed three alleged kidnappers and recovered a man they had abducted a while ago. Another kidnapper fled, police said. They said Munawwar Hussain and Ali Nawaz of...
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Symbolism in art: ‘The artists’ work is painstaking and laborious’
LAHORE: “Adeela Shah’s work explores space and form. She takes two dimensional surfaces and bends them. It is also a chronicle of her personal journey,” Sanam Taseer, owner of the Taseer Art Gallery,...
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