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Authority and responsibility: Environment protection standards ‘abysmal’
LAHORE: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director Muhammad Tauqeer Ahmad Qureshi revealed on Thursday that the agency’s laboratory tests were unreliable. He said delinquent officials had...
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All countries must outlaw blasphemy: Siraj
LAHORE: In a letter addressed to heads of 28 states, the secretaries general of the United Nations and the Organisation of Islamic Conference, Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has condemned the...
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Arduous struggle: Terrorism great hurdle to progress, development, says CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the National Action Plan had been formulated to rid the nation of terrorism and extremism. He was speaking to provincial assembly members...
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Family protests newborn’s death at hospital
FAISALABAD: Relatives of an infant who died during birth at a private clinic on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against the doctor’s alleged negligence. The protesters gathered outside the...
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Rules and regulations: Gymkhana elections might be delayed
LAHORE: The Joint Stock Companies registrar has directed the Lahore Gymkhana Club secretary to amend Articles of Association regarding elections and tenure of club directors saying that these are...
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Petrol crisis: LHC seeks federal govt’s inquiry findings
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday asked the federal officials to submit the findings of an inquiry conducted by the federal government into the petrol crisis and minutes of the Oil Advisory...
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Breaking a mob: Child demanding school reopening injured
LAHORE: A child was injured when police baton-charged protesters in front of Government Islamia High School Bhati Gate on Thursday. An inquiry committee, constituted on orders of Chief Minister...
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Procedural errors: Court stays FESCO chief’s, MD’s appointment
LAHORE: Lahore High Court on Friday stayed the appointment of chief executive officer and managing director of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) and sought a reply from the Ministry of Water...
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Governance: Trust allowed to run public school
LAHORE: The Education Department allowed the Al Ghazi Foundation on Friday to manage the Government Islamia High School in Bhati Gate area. Hundreds of students and their parents had staged a protest...
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Prioritising health: 150-bed hospital to be built in Bhakkar
BHAKKAR: A 150-bed hospital will be set up in Hyderabad Thal in Bhakkar. A spokesman of the Health Department said an agreement in this regard had been signed between the Qatar Foundation and the...
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Protests staged against offensive caricatures
BHAKKAR / FAISALABAD: Hundreds of people came together to protest against publication of offensive caricatures by French magazine Charlie Hebdo. The protests were organised by various religious...
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Protecting foreigners: Special police unit to be functional by June 30
LAHORE: The Specialised Protection Unit (SPU) of the Punjab Police, formed to protect foreigners in the province, is expected to be fully functional by June 30, SPU SSP Gohar Nafees has told The...
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Ban flouted: Jamaatud Dawa holds mass rally in defiance of govt ban
LAHORE: The Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and its offshoot Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation (FIF) continue to operate in the city although the government has recently banned them. The JuD continues to raise funds...
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Pithy briefs: ‘Chief minister wants six-slide presentations’
LAHORE: The Punjab government has set a six-slide benchmark for official presentations given to the chief minister on development projects, policy concepts and initiatives to improve governance in the...
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Preserving history: No construction in Walled City without WCLA’s approval: LHC
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday issued a verdict prohibiting the construction and demolition of all buildings in the Walled City without the prior permission of the Walled City of Lahore...
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Dealing with in-security: New security measures have a down side
LAHORE: Two weeks have passed since the reopening of schools after they beefed up security in the wake of the Army Public School attack in Peshawar. Barbed wire, metal detectors, CCTV cameras and...
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Death toll rises to 83 as another child dies at Sargodha's DHQ hospital
SARGODHA: One more child died at Sargodha’s District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital on Saturday morning bringing the death toll to 83 in the past two months, Express News reported. The child allegedly...
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Irregularities detected in NA-122 constituency polls: inquiry commission
LAHORE: Former sessions judge Ghulam Hussain Awan, who was appointed as head of an inquiry committee formed to probe alleged rigging in 2013′s elections, noted certain irregularities in the NA-122...
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Public health: ‘Prevalence of polio perturbs international community’
LAHORE: World Health Organisation (WHO) Pakistan Director Michel Thierin said on Friday that more efforts were required to rid the nation of polio virus. He was leading a WHO delegation that had...
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Million march: Government accused of being soft on blasphemy
LAHORE: “The government is trying to push the country towards secularism but we will not let this happen,” Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) secretary general Liaqat Baloch said on Sunday. He was leading a...
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