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High honours: UAF student to address UN assembly
FAISALABAD: Rabia Faridi, a student of University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), will receive Youth Courage Award 2014 at the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22....
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Urban development: Jail Road, main boulevard to be made signal-free
LAHORE: Two underpasses and several u-turns will be built to make Jail Road and Gulberg’s Main Boulevard signal-free corridors, The Express Tribune has learnt. The Traffic Engineering and Transport...
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Held incommunicado: Comments sought regarding detention of PTI workers
LAHORE: Justice Iftikhar Ali Shah of Lahore High Court on Thursday sought comments from the IG and the CCPO during the hearing of a petition regarding the illegal detention of 135 Pakistan...
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Policeman shot dead in Lahore
LAHORE: A police official was shot dead at Akbar Chowk, Lahore on Friday while another was injured, Express News reported. Two robbers on a motor bike shot one of the police officials, identified as...
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Court clears Nawaz, Shahbaz in money laundering case
RAWALPINDI: An accountability court acquitted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and other members of Sharif family of all charges pertaining to a money laundering and...
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Attacking police station: ATC approves PML-N MPA's bail
FAISALABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Faisalabad approved Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MPA Rana Shoaib Idrees’ bail against surety bonds worth Rs300,000, Express News reported Friday....
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Gullu Butt indicted for vandalism in Model Town
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Friday indicted Shahid, alias Gullu Butt, on charges of vandalism and attacking police officials in Model Town. On Friday, police produced Gullu before the court...
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Punjab government assures LHC that detained PAT workers will be released
LAHORE: Punjab government on Friday assured the Lahore High Court that all detained workers of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) will be released. This undertaking was given by additional home secretary...
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Inconvenience: Faisalabadis protest slow road work
FAISALABAD: Nearly 300 residents of Bhaiwala, Gatti and adjoining areas held a protest demonstration on Jhumrah-Faisalabad Road on Friday against the slow pace of construction on the road. The...
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Free man: MPA granted bail
FAISALABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Ishtiaq Ahmed on Friday granted bail to provincial assembly member Rana Shoaib Idrees. The MPA is accused of attacking a police station, creating a law and...
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Rescue-1122 helped 85,442 flood-hit people
LAHORE: Rescue-1122 has rescued 85,442 people in 26 flood-hit districts of the province, according to a briefing given to Punjab Emergency Service Director General (DG) Rizwan Naseer on Friday....
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Fair treatment: ‘Govt not doing enough to protect minorities’
LAHORE: The government is not doing enough to honour its commitments related to protection and promotion of minorities’ rights, said speakers at a consultation on Friday. The event had been arranged...
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Skill-based education: Technical training programme launched
LAHORE: University of the Punjab has launched a one-year study programme in collaboration with the Virtual University (VU) of Pakistan and Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany, as part of...
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Cross border affair: LHC seeks reply from foreign ministry
LAHORE: Justice Shahzada Mazhar of Lahore High Court on Friday sought a reply from the Foreign Ministry by October 1 regarding a petition filed to gain the custody of a child admitted at an Indian...
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Corporal punishment: Student’s fingers broken for ‘being late for class’
FAISALABAD: A grade 9 student suffered two broken fingers in a beating by her teacher on Friday. Four others were punished for four hours. The district education officer has taken notice of the...
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Health alert: ‘Watch out for Congo virus as Eidul Azha draws near’
LAHORE: As markets for sacrificial animals are being set up in the province ahead of Eidul Azha, the provincial administration has been directed to take all possible precautionary measures against...
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Political aspirations: Bilawal pledges to take back Kashmir from India
MULTAN: Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari vowed to take back all of Kashmir from India and not leave behind a single inch of it because it “belongs only to...
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16-year-old attacked with acid for turning down marriage proposal
JHANG: A 16-year-old girl was attacked with acid on Saturday in Jhang by two men, one of whom was allegedly rejected for marriage by the victim’s family, Express News reported. The victim was shifted...
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In custody: Punjab govt pledges to release PAT workers
LAHORE: The Punjab government assured the Lahore High Court on Friday that all detained workers of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) would be released soon. This undertaking was given by Wajahat Hamdan,...
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Status quo: PMA, YDA favour entry tests
LAHORE: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) are opposed to the abolition of entry tests for admission to universities. PMA general secretary Mirza Ali Azhar...
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