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Amendments to CrPC: No arrests without citing grounds says Law Commission
LAHORE: The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan on Saturday introduced an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) disallowing law enforcers from actions causing injury or death of a...
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Explaining the budget: Yellow cab scheme to provide 50,000 rural jobs
LAHORE: The budget encompasses the government’s vision for the next four years. It focuses on job creation, skill development and growth. The idea is to spare the common man any financial burden,...
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Day of horror: Four women reported gang-raped in Punjab
FAISALABAD / BAHAWALPUR / DERA GHAZI KHAN: Four women, between the ages of 13 and 25, were reported gang raped on Friday-Saturday. One of them died at a hospital and two were in a critical condition,...
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Enhancing strength: CM’s Secretariat set to expand
LAHORE: The government is set to expand Chief Minister’s Secretariat substantially this year in line with the expansion in the provincial cabinet. Seventy-two new posts will be created at the...
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Busted: Two arrested after encounter on highway
LAHORE: The Punjab Highway Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested two robbers and recovered 400g of unhygienic meat and 429g heroin in separate incidents. PHP officials said that they received...
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NADRA blames ECP for failure to verify votes
LAHORE: Following the verification of thumb impressions on ballot papers in NA 118, Lahore, the National Database Registration Authority (NADRA) has blamed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)...
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Undocumented electric wires claim seven lives
MULTAN: Workers who died of an electric shock late on Saturday are believed to be unaware of the electric wiring under the ground they were drilling in, officials say. They also say that there were...
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Empty words: Forced retirement of PTU chief puts talks in quandary
LAHORE: The future of talks between the government and the Punjab Teachers’ Union (PTU) seemed bleak on Sunday as the teacher’s representative body was gearing to return to the streets to protest the...
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Jobless, homeless: Man sets himself on fire ‘to protest police excesses’
LAHORE: A youth committed suicide on Sunday allegedly under police pressure to vacate his ancestral house. Police said Salman Tariq, 27, doused himself with kerosene oil early on Sunday and set...
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Early detection: Young doctors propose mandatory annual checkups
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association Pakistan General Secretary Dr Salman Kazmi, in a letter to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the chief secretary and Health Departments,has requested the government...
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Crime against women: Woman burnt in acid attack by ex-husband
MULTAN: A woman and her one-year-old child suffered burns with acid in Sahiwal on Sunday when her former husband attacked her with acid. Police said 25-year-old Zainab Bibi had divorced her former...
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Unintended consequences: Canal breach devastates crops, farmers’ stocks
FAISALABAD: Standing crops were destroyed over hundreds of acres of land after a breach occurred in the Bahlak Rajbah (canal) near Pindi Sheikh Musa village on Saturday night. An adjacent village,...
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Railway Colony residents stage angry protest in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: Residents of Railway Colony in Faisalabad pelted trains with sticks and stones in protest against the demolition of their houses in the area, Express News reported on Friday. This morning,...
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CJP's nephew Umar Jillani kidnapped from Multan
MULTAN: Umar Jillani, the nephew of Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Tasadduq Hussain Jillani, was kidnapped from Multan in the early hours of Monday, an intelligence agency confirmed. Umar, who is...
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Last resort: Woman tries to kill herself outside PA
LAHORE: A woman doused herself in kerosene oil and tried to set herself on fire in front of the Punjab Assembly on Monday. Policemen deployed there for security managed to stop her from burning...
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Law and order: 8 ‘criminals’ arrested
SARGODHA: The district police on Monday claimed to have arrested six drug dealers and two proclaimed offenders and recovered narcotics and weapons from them. Police said that they arrested Ehtshamul...
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Lowering the guard: Cop killed after detained robbers snatch police weapons
LAHORE: A police sub-inspector was shot and killed and two constables were injured by two men accused of robbery whom the policemen were escorting to the prison after presenting them in a court on...
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Thicker than blood: Brothers kill parents, sister, nephew for land
FAISALABAD: Two men killed their father, mother, sister and a nephew over a property dispute near Rodala Road police station on Monday. Rodala Road Station House Officer (SHO) Muhammad Yousuf Shehzad...
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Flesh justice: Police recover two ‘vani’ girls
BHAKKAR: A tribal court on Monday declared two girls vani in Nawabwala on Monday. District Police officer (DPO) Shakir Hussain Dawar said Shakir and Imran allegedly had relations with Malik Sher...
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inoculation: Akmal, Rafique administer anti-polio drops
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique and cricketer Umar Akmal administered anti-polio drops to children at the Government Dispensary in Gulberg on Monday. Rafique said...
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