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Plea dismissed: LHC dismisses contempt petition against police
LAHORE: Justice Iftikhar Hussain Shah of Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a contempt petition filed regarding the detention of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activists. Zubair Khan Niazi, the...
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NA-149 elections: Dogar files nomination papers, leaves PPP
MULTAN: Amir Dogar, a former Pakistan Peoples Party leader, filed nomination papers on Tuesday to contest the by-elections in NA-149 (Multan II). Dogar, who has been the PPP south Punjab general...
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Law and order: Foolproof security ordered on Eid
FAISALABAD: Regional Police Officer (RPO) Muhammad Ihsan Tufail on Tuesday directed all district police officers to make fool-proof security arrangements on Eidul Azha. Tufail said that special...
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Street patrolling: Police stations handed over 250 motorcycles
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains said on Tuesday more than 250 motorcycles retrieved from the offices and residences of police officers would be used for patrolling of the city....
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Congo virus: Livestock Dept ordered to spray cattle markets
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique on Tuesday directed the Health Department and the Livestock Department to take steps to prevent the outbreak of Congo fever. He was...
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Street crime: 16 bikes, cash snatched in 33 robberies
FAISALABAD: Robbers snatched cash, jewellery, mobile phones, 16 motorcycles and other valuables in 33 robberies in Faisalabad and its suburbs on Monday-Tuesday. Mobile phones and gold jewellery were...
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Drinking water
LAHORE: Access to potable water is a basic right implied in the Constitution. Constitutional right The Constitution of Pakistan secures several basic fundamental rights of citizens. The Article 9...
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Academic question : Rescue-1122 director general accused of violating rules
LAHORE: The Home Department and the Punjab Emergency Service (PES) director general (DG) have locked horns over which office should recruit a principal for the Emergency Service Academy (ESA), The...
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Committee meeting: Last week of Sept crucial for anti-dengue efforts says...
LAHORE: The last week of September is crucial for stopping the breeding of dengue mosquitoes and officials should remain on alert, Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique said on...
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Unsatisfied: UHS discouraging MS, MD programmes says YDA
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) has accused the University of Health Sciences (UHS) of trying to discourage the doctor of medicine (MD) and the master of surgery (MS) programmes. At a...
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All hat, no cattle: Prospective livestock buyers having a cow over high prices
LAHORE: Putting yourself through the paces for purchasing a sacrificial animal ahead of Eidul Azha may seem like a herculean task in itself. But the prices of livestock at the six sale points set up...
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Cooperation: Lahore, Yantie become sister cities
LAHORE: The Punjab government signed two agreements with Yantie, the industrial city of Chinese province Shandong. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was the chief guest on the occasion. Under the...
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Making peace: Faisalabad bar calls off strike after RPO’s intervention
FAISALABAD: Regional Police Officer (RPO) Muhammad Ehsan Taufail on Wednesday intervened in the marriage hall demolition dispute between the district coordination officer (DCO) and the Faisalabad Bar...
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Financial duress: Hakeem commits suicide after killing wife
FAISALABAD: Police said on Wednesday that a hakeem (a practitioner of traditional medicine) had committed suicide after killing his wife in Samanabad area. They said Ghulam Muhammad, a resident of...
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Deadly encounter: Three ‘robbers’ shot dead in Yazman
BAHAWALPUR: Three people police said were robbers were shot dead in Yazman on Wednesday. Police said they died after being hit by bullets fired by people trying to free them. On September 17, police...
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‘Faisalabad has a hepatitis problem’
FAISALABAD: “According to the World Health Organisation, Pakistan is ranked among the top countries affected by hepatitis,” says Dr Zahid Yaseen Hashmi, principal of the Punjab Medical College (PMC)....
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Hope springs eternal: ‘Several politicians to join PTI after Sunday protest’
LAHORE: “After a mega public gathering in Lahore on Sunday, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is planning to take the dharna to Sargodha, Gujranwala, Sahiwal and then Multan,” PTI Punjab president Ejaz...
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Justice denied: 12-year-old rape victim, mother set themselves on fire
MULTAN: A 12-year-old rape victim and her mother were saved by journalists and civil society activists on Wednesday after they set themselves on fire at Multan Press Club. The girl, Samina*, had been...
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Bad medicine: Families protest deaths of 133 children in 45 days at...
MULTAN: Dozens of people staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday in front of the Bahawalnagar district headquarters hospital over the deaths of 133 children at the facility in 45 days. Parents who...
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NESPAK to build signal-free interchange at GT Road
LAHORE: National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) on Wednesday was assigned the task of a detailed design by the Communication and Works Department for a signal-free interchange at Aziz Cross,...
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