Petrol crisis: On a hunt for drops of fuel
LAHORE / MULTAN: Thousands of citizens woke up early morning on Sunday to queue up at the handful of fuel stations selling fuel in the provincial capital. It has been six days since the supply of...
View ArticleReligious sentiments: Boycott French products to avenge blasphemy, says Saeed
LAHORE: Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed on Sunday urged Muslims across the world to boycott French commodities in protest against the publication of sacrilegious caricatures by French...
View ArticleOut of reach: Crackdown launched against selling overpriced petrol
LAHORE: City government told its price control magistrates on Monday to take action against vendors selling petroleum at inflated rates. Special teams, supervised by District Monitoring Officer Amin...
View ArticleMissing girl’s parents protest against police
FAISALABAD: Scores of relatives of a girl who went missing on December 22 protested against police in front of city government secretariat for failing to trace her whereabouts. Muhammad Amin, father...
View ArticleNew road to be built to ‘facilitate’ businesses at Delhi Gate
LAHORE: The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) says it will build a road to connect the Delhi Gate market with Circular Road to facilitate businesses in the area. The road in Gur Mandi would be...
View ArticleEnergy crisis : Gas quota for Faisalabad is inadequate, says SNGPL MD
FAISALABAD: Scores of residents of localities near Jhang Road, including Lakkar Mandi, Partap Nagar, Saifabad, Liaqatabad and Gulfishan Mor on Monday staged a protest demonstration against...
View ArticleUnited stance: Nation will win war against terrorism, says CM
LAHORE: Pakistan is fighting the war against terrorism to protect its future generations. The nation will win this war at all costs, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday. He was talking to...
View ArticleInter-faith meeting: Religious scholars condemn Peshawar attack, caricatures
LAHORE: Representatives of Sikh, Hindu, Christian and Muslim communities unanimously passed a resolution on Monday, condemning the Peshawar attack and expressing their support for the government and...
View ArticleTaking a stand: Move ICJ against French cartoons, demands LHCBA
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) passed a resolution demanding that the government move the International Court of Justice against publication of sacrilegious cartoons in a French...
View ArticleIn memoriam: Bells ring forever for Jahan Ara
LAHORE: The small room bathed in soft yellow lamp light was decorated with pictures of some of her best performances and her college days. Olomopolo Media organised the event Remembering Jahan Ara on...
View ArticleVocal critics: PTI, PAT, PML-Q slam govt for failing to end petrol shortage
LAHORE: Opposition parties on Monday strongly criticised the government for failing to resolve the petrol crisis. Supporters and leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) staged demonstrations at...
View ArticleEgalitarian technolgy: Big Brother is watching
LAHORE: The Chief Minister’s Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) on Monday launched a pilot project in collaboration with Traffic Police. The project using an electronic surveillance based policing system...
View ArticlePetrol crisis: LHC seeks report on petrol supply, demand
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday sought a detailed report on the supply and demand of petrol in the province. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the LHC directed the petroleum secretary and...
View ArticleBrutal attack: Landlord sets dogs onto labourer for asking for wages
FAISALABAD: A landlord set his dogs onto a tenant after he asked for his wages on Wednesday. The victim was taken to a hospital where doctors admitted him to the intensive care unit. They said his...
View ArticlePromoting tolerance: Imposition of Arab culture has caused bloodshed, says...
LAHORE: Jamia Naeemia chief Raghib Naeemi said on Thursday that the imposition of Arab culture on the nation had caused bloodshed. He was speaking at a seminar organised by the Information and Culture...
View ArticleWinter woes: Three students injured in school fire
BAHAWALPUR: Three children were seriously injured when a fire broke out in a special education school in Hasilpur on Thursday. A Rescue 1122 spokesman told newsmen that seven-year-old Sanaullah,...
View ArticleRs300m for tribal area uplift
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Provincial Assembly Member Jamal Khan Leghari on Thursday said the chief minister had approved a budget of Rs300 million for renovation of Cadet College, Daanish Schools in Dera...
View ArticleReligious sentiments: Traders protest blasphemous caricatures
FAISALABAD: Press Market Anjuman-i-Tajiran members on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against publication of blasphemous caricatures in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. Participants of the...
View Article216 to be trained as health master trainers
LAHORE: Training of 216 health managers as master trainers will start form January 26. Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique on Thursday inaugurated the training programme at the...
View ArticleUp in arms: Thousands protest proposed privatisation of WAPDA
FAISALABAD / LAHORE: Thousands of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) and electric workers came together on Thursday to stage a protest demonstration against the proposed privatisation of...
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