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Kidnap: 4 suspects arrested
LAHORE: CIA Police claimed on Saturday to have arrested four suspects in two kidnap-for-ransom cases. Police said the suspects had confessed and Rs2.5 million in ransom money had been recovered. Two...
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Access to justice: District bars to go on strike over LHC benches
FAISALABAD: District bar associations of five revenue divisions of the Punjab, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujranwala and Sahiwal, have decided to go on strike until Lahore High Court...
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E&T Office: Staff caught pocketing token tax payments
LAHORE: Two data entry operators (DEOs) at the Excise and Taxation (E&T) Office could face a criminal case with the Anti-Corruption Establishment after they were found to have kept a token tax...
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Vehicle taxes: SMS service to be launched to curb token tax fraud
LAHORE: The Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department is to launch an SMS service for Lahore in a month where vehicle owners can get details of registration and token tax payments in order to curb...
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Shahbaz says Punjab Assembly won’t be dissolved on March 19
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that the Punjab Assembly would not be dissolved along with the other assemblies unless the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s demands on the...
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Load Management: Gas supply to be restored for 48 hours
FAISALABAD: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) will restore gas supply for 48 hours to CNG stations in Faisalabad, Sargodha, Rawalpindi, Multan, Gujranwala and Bahawalpur from Monday. An...
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Caretaker chief minister: ‘Opposition nominations in two days’
LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party is expected to announce its nominees for the caretaker chief minister in two days. The party is consulting the Jamaat-i-Islami, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid...
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‘There is unprecedented last-minute plundering’
LAHORE: The federal and provincial governments have been accused by the Tehreek-i-Insaf of ‘plundering’ and ‘looting’ the exchequer even during their final minutes in power. A press release issued on...
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Punjab administration: ‘We spent six times more on development than last govt’
LAHORE: The incumbent government has spent six times as much on development in its five years as the previous provincial government led by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said...
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Primary schools: Teachers appointed to all vacant seats
BHAKKAR: Science graduates have been appointed to teachers’ vacancies in primary schools in the district, Executive District Officer (Education) Syed Muhammad Waheeduddin told a delegation from the...
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New LHC benches: Lawyers from Lahore, other districts don’t see eye to eye
LAHORE: The decision by Punjab’s outgoing cabinet to form five more benches of the Lahore High Court stirred the lawyers throughout the week. If this announcement developed a soft corner for the...
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‘We will change Pakistan’s fate’
GUJRAT: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Syed Munawwar Hassan and Tehreek-i-Tahaffuze Pakistan leader Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan have said that they would save Pakistan together and change its fate for the better....
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Land grabbing: Tenants ‘usurp land’
BAHAWALPUR: “We have lost 23 acres of land to a land grabbers’ mafia and Saddar police is complicit in the matter,” said a land owner at a press conference here on Saturday. Muhammad Aqeel Aziz and...
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Primary school: One teacher for five grades
NAROWAL: There is only one teacher for 88 students in five classes at the Government Primary Girls School in Dadiyan village, The Express Tribune has learnt. A media team visited the school on...
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District bar: Newly elected bar officials take oath
BAHAWALPUR: Governor Makhdoom Syed Ahmad Mehmood said on Sunday that he had accepted governorship with the approval of Pir Pagara and would not compete for any seat in the general elections. He was...
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Progress on bioremediation pond at Ravi held up by ‘dead-end’ Japanese plant
LAHORE: The proposed site of an experimental wastewater treatment plant that could begin to clean up the River Ravi at Babu Sabu remains in dispute, with the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) failing...
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Joseph Colony: Blasphemy complainant, arson accused still missing
LAHORE: Police have so far been unable to find Shahid Imran, the complainant in the blasphemy case against a Christian resident of Joseph Colony and an accused in the subsequent arson in the...
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Exam Centre: Invigilation team changed for third time
SAHIWAL: The invigilation team at the examination centre set up at the Government Girls High School was changed for the third time by the Sargodha Board administration on Monday. Controller of...
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Anti Corruption: Cases against SHO, ASI for receiving Rs550,000 bribe
BAHAWALPUR: The Anti Corruption Establishment (ACE) registered a case against an SHO and an assistant sub-inspector on Sunday over charges of receiving a bribe to let alleged liquor smugglers go....
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Protest against ‘corrupt’ gas official
BAHAWALPUR: Hundreds of protesters blocked Nawa Kot Road on Sunday demanding the suspension or transfer of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline (SNGPL) Khanpur SDO Saman Ali, who they said was involved in gas...
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