Child labour: 10-year-old beaten for ‘stealing mobile phone’
MULTAN: The police on Thursday registered a case against a man for beating a 10-year-old domestic worker. Muhammad Hussain told the police in his complaint that Muhammad Asghar, a resident of B-Block...
View ArticleStreet power: PTI, PAT endangering country, says Hamza
LAHORE: MNA Hamza Shahbaz said on Thursday that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) were putting the country in danger to satisfy their lust for power. He was...
View ArticleAzadi March: Mobilisation has unnerved government, says Ejaz
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry said on Thursday that the government should refrain from adopting a vindictive attitude towards the party. He was addressing a...
View ArticleBy the people: ‘No room for revolution, long march’
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday those calling for the so-called revolutions and long marches should instead help the people displaced by a military operation against terrorists...
View ArticleRangers deployed in Lahore to ensure security till August 14
LAHORE: Rangers were deployed in Lahore at the request of the Punjab government to ensure security in the provincial capital, Express News reported. The government had asked the interior ministry to...
View ArticleQadri's ultimate destination is behind bars: Rana Mashood
LAHORE: Labeling Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri a coward, Punjab Law Minister Rana Mashood said on Friday that the firebrand cleric’s ultimate destination is behind bars. “Tahirul...
View ArticleModel Town unrest: ‘Why no non-violence undertaking by Qadri?’
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) judge remarked on Friday that it could order removal of all obstacles on the streets if Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leader Tahirul Qadri gave an undertaking not to...
View ArticleMaintaining calm: ‘Force will not be used on peaceful protesters’
SHEIKHUPURA: Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain said on Friday the government would not use force against participants of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) long march. Addressing a...
View ArticleRight to mobility : Release all bikes impounded in last 72 hours orders LHC
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Friday directed the provincial government to release all motorcycles impounded by the police since Wednesday, after verification of their registration documents. Justice...
View ArticleGearing strong : Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf relocates provincial office to...
LAHORE: The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has shifted its office from Faisal Town to Cantonment allegedly over closure of main roads leading to the office with containers and...
View ArticleMisleading the court: LBA president to counsel lawyers on bail applications
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Ejaz Ahmed Buttar on Friday directed the Lahore Bar Association president to counsel lawyers who filed multiple bail applications. He also directed the...
View ArticlePTI leaders dismiss security conference as media stunt
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders Mian Mahmoodur Rashid and Shafqat Mehmood said on Friday the national security conference called by the prime minister was a media stunt. “Had the...
View ArticleHolding forth: Shahbaz accuses Imran of duplicity
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan was willing to negotiate with Taliban who had killed 40,000 Pakistanis but was not willing to...
View Article‘Martyrs’ Day’: Showdown in Punjab
FAISALABAD / LAHORE: Scores of stick-wielding activists of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) clashed with policemen in Lahore’s Model Town neighbourhood on Friday after the city and the province of...
View ArticleHazardous work: WASA worker dies from suffocation
FAISALABAD: Scores of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) workers on Friday staged a protest demonstration after a sanitary worker died from suffocation and another fainted while cleaning a man-hole...
View ArticleLoad shedding: Industrialists withdraw protest call
FAISALABAD: Industry and trade organisations on Friday withdrew their decision to protest against electricity load shedding after the authorities promised a load management plan for industries. The...
View ArticleSix feet under: Woman’s grave desecrated in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: Over 100 residents of Sammundri on Friday protested police inaction of an alleged case of necrophilia. Naveed Akram, one of the protestors, told newsmen that 45-year-old Bushra Bibi, wife...
View ArticleOnce upon a time… : Storytelling session held at Children Library Complex
LAHORE: Adventures of Tot Batot and Moochhander, the Iron Man, mesmerised a young audience on Friday during an hour-long interactive and animated storytelling session, conducted by translator and...
View Article‘Unconstitutional take over won’t be allowed’
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorchani said on Friday that no one would be allowed to take over government through unconstitutional and undemocratic methods. He was...
View ArticleLeading the operation: Nisar to call the shots in Punjab till Aug 14
LAHORE: The province of Punjab has been practically handed over to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, who will deal with both Dr Tahirul Qadri’s Martyrs’ Day on August 10 and Imran Khan’s...
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