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Free education: PEF to educate 2.2 million drop-out students by 2019
LAHORE: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has set itself the objective of arranging free education for 2.2 million drop-out children in the Punjab by 2019, PEF Chairman Qamarul Islam Raja said on...
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Pay up: Woman seeks case against PAT for not paying compensation
LAHORE: A woman filed a petition at the district and sessions court on Monday seeking compliance orders to register an FIR against Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Dr Tahirul Qadri among others for not...
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Health commitments: Polio vaccination drive resumes
LAHORE / FAISALABAD / BAHAWALPUR / BHAKKAR: Hundreds of thousands of children across the province were administered polio drops as part of a three-day vaccination drive launched on Monday. Prime...
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RPOs’ conference: Police top brass decides to step up anti-terror fight
LAHORE: The top police officials of the province, led by Inspector General Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, on Monday decided to step up efforts to combat terrorism at the annual RPOs’ conference. The meeting,...
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Chief of bureaucracy: ‘Make solving citizens’ problems your priority’
LAHORE: “We can place the Punjab on a road to progress and development if we implement Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s vision for good governance and merit,” Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal said...
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Awaiting execution: LHC seeks details of death row convicts
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the federal and Punjab governments to submit details about death-row convicts. Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa was hearing a petition filed by Judicial...
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National resolve: All Taliban are terrorists, says Shahbaz
LAHORE: “The Taliban cannot be classified as good and bad. They are all terrorists and have caused harm to the country,” Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday. He was addressing a conference...
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Back to school: Most city schools reopen
LAHORE: The majority of educational institutions in the city reopened on Monday after winter vacation that had been extended following a terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar on December 16. Some...
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Provinces fail to adhere job quota for minorities in police: SC told
ISLAMABAD: According to a report submitted by the Sindh government in the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, Punjab and Sindh governments have failed to adhere to the five per cent job quota for...
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Zardari asks Punjab chapter president Wattoo to reorganise party
ISLAMABAD: Amid growing disenchantment among its ranks, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday asked the Punjab chapter of the party to reorganise. “I ask the provincial...
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Rare phenomenon: Gymkhana elections delayed further
LAHORE: The Lahore Gymkhana Club’s Committee of Management could not finalise on Monday a date for its annual elections. The committee held an annual general meeting and an extraordinary general...
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Model Town violence: PAT to flag off nationwide protest campaign on Saturday
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek central president Raheeq Ahmed Abbasi said on Tuesday that the party would be organising a nation-wide campaign against the government’s failure to form a judicial...
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Winter woes: Hundreds take to streets against gas load shedding
FAISALABAD: Hundreds of people from Chak 67-JB and its adjoining areas came together on Jhang-Faisalabad Road on Tuesday to stage a protest demonstration against unscheduled gas load shedding. The...
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Wiki it: Internet encyclopedia planning to create biographical articles on MNAs
LAHORE: Wikipedia, a free-access and free-content internet encyclopedia, will be creating individual biography pages of all National Assembly Members (MNAs) to make its 14th birthday a special...
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School Health Programme: ‘Health, Education Depts should own new initiative’
LAHORE: The School Health Programme (SHP) aims to reach out to children and their families and should be owned by the Health and Education Departments. These recommendations were put forth by...
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Urban development: Rs30 billion approved for Multan’s Metro Bus
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif approved an expenditure of Rs30 billion to construct Multan’s Metro Bus Corridor One at a meeting held on Tuesday. Corridor One will be 18.5 kilometres long and...
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Trust deficit: Compromise between Lahori, complainant’s family falls apart
LAHORE: The Damocles sword once again hangs over Ikramul Haq alias Lahori and two other members of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi as a compromise to exonerate two Shiites, also on death row, in their stead...
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Bride dead, groom injured as roof of Lahore wedding hall caves in
LAHORE: At least seven people, including the bride, were killed when the roof of a wedding hall in Lahore caved in early on Wednesday. According to initial details, the roof of Faizan Marriage Hall in...
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Attack on police: LJ activist to be hanged on 15th
LAHORE: An activist of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) is scheduled to be hanged to death at the Central Jail on January 15 for attacking a police picket and killing two officials and injuring several others...
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PML-N MNA dies of heart attack
NANKANA SAHIB: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MNA Rai Mansab Ali Khan died of a heart attack on Monday morning in the city of Nankana Sahib in Punjab, Express News reported. Khan won NA-137 seat...
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