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Crowd management: PTI leaders crowded off stage
LAHORE: Several PTI leaders including Ahsan Rasheed, Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri and Farooq Amjad Mir found it difficult to make it onto the main stage at Saturday’s rally because it was very crowded....
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Public safety: Police abandon security checks at main gate
LAHORE: Thousands of people were able to enter Minto Park for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf rally unchecked on Saturday as the police abandoned the general gate by 5pm. Though 2,000 policemen had been...
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PTI rally: ‘I want investment in education; not bricks’
LAHORE: Change was definitely the buzzword at Minto Park on Saturday. It could be heard booming from the sound system regardless of who was speaking on stage and every Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf...
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New Tehreek-i-Insaf office-bearers vow to bring change
LAHORE: Though the rain prevented 80,000 elected officer-bearers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PT) from being sworn in by Imran Khan at Minar-i-Pakistan on Saturday, it did not dampen their...
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Punjab caretaker CM: Panel to begin consultations today
LAHORE: A six-member committee, constituted by Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan for the appointment of a caretaker chief minister, will hold its first meeting on Sunday (today). The...
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Opinion on the PTI jalsa: More hope and less substance
LAHORE: The only things new about what Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi called “new politics” was the palpable hope for change among a significant proportion of the...
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Committee fails to select caretaker CM Punjab
LAHORE: The parliamentary committee failed to reach a consensus on the name for caretaker chief minister for Punjab in their first meeting held on Sunday, Express News reported. The committee decided...
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Concerns: Larger procurement quota sought for Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: The Flourmills Association (Faisalabad division) protested on Sunday against an apprehended reduction in the wheat procurement quota for the division and demanded that the quota should...
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Water scarcity: 1,100 ponds in Cholistan need cleaning
BAHAWALPUR: A community event was organised by the Al Sadiq Desert Welfare Organisation to observe the World Water Day at the Derawar Fort on Friday. Speaking at the event, Cholistan Water Action...
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Wheat procurement: ‘Gunny bags on first-come-first-served basis’
BAHAWALPUR: Purchase of wheat for 2013-2014 in Rahim Yar Khan will begin from April 20, District Coordination Officer Nabeel Javed said on Sunday. He was presiding over a meeting to discuss the...
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In the doghouse: Police van runs into visitors at the zoo
BAHAWALPUR: A policeman lost control of his van and ran into and injured two people at the Bahawalpur Zoo on Sunday. Police said that Faizanul Haq, a policeman, had borrowed a vehicle from the Police...
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Terms over, but scrutiny of MPs continues
The national and provincial assemblies have been dissolved after completing their terms, but the work of the courts hearing petitions for the disqualification of outgoing parliamentarians continues....
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Metro Bus Service: Smart traffic signals still not operational
LAHORE: The Intelligence Transportation System (ITS) installed for the Metro Bus System (MBS) might take another 20 days to become functional, The Express Tribune has learnt. Peter Jacob, an...
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Cantonment antics: Auditors detect over Rs16m irregularities
RAWALPINDI: The auditors have detected an array of financial irregularities and mismanagement in the accounts of two cantonment boards during the last financial year. The Auditor General of Pakistan...
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Diagnostic programme: Childhood TB screening to be launched in all districts
LAHORE: A screening programme for childhood tuberculosis ongoing in 12 districts will soon be extended to all 36 districts of the Punjab, said a Health Department official on Sunday. Pakistan has the...
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Day two: No consensus on Punjab caretaker CM
LAHORE: The six member Parliamentary Committee convened its second meeting without a decision on a name for the position of caretaker chief minister of Punjab on Monday, reported Express News. The...
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Road Expansion: Citizen reports embezzlement
KUNDIAN: The National Accountability Bureau received a complaint from a citizen on Monday who pointed at the alleged embezzlement in the expansion of the road from Chashma Head works to Ahmed Shah...
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Smuggling: Eight arrested for possession of narcotics, guns
MIANWALI: The Anti Narcotics Force arrested two men on Monday and claimed to have recovered three maunds of hashish and six kilogrammes opium from them. They said the men were on their way from...
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Corruption Charges: LHC moved to stop Nawaz Sharif from running
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court was moved on Monday to restrain former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from contesting the general elections scheduled to be held on May 11. Imran Ali, a citizen, moved the...
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Strike ends after DSP apologises to Excise official
LAHORE: A police official who slapped an Excise inspector at a checkpoint at Babu Sabu last week apologised on Monday, bringing an end to the one-and-a-half day strike at the Excise and Taxation...
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