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Election 2013: Qureshi to fight Gillani at NA-148
MULTAN: More tan 150 candidates have obtained nomination papers to contest the May 11 elections for six national assembly and 13 provincial assembly seats. Former foreign minister Shah Mahmood...
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Election scrutiny: Mashhood says hospital was renamed by CM, not him
LAHORE: Former Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Rana Mashhood has denied that he violated the Election Commission’s code of conduct by renaming Sodiwal Hospital after his father, as the decision was...
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Party tickets: PTI to announce its candidates from Punjab today
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Central Parliamentary Board (CPB) will finalise its list of candidates from the Punjab for the national and provincial assemblies on Wednesday (today), The...
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Raheela Magsi, Irfan Gul Magsi join PML-N
Raheela Magsi, the former district nazim Tando Allahyar and her brother Irfan Gul Magsi, a former minister for revenue, joined the Pakistan Muslim League –Nawaz (PML-N) on Wednesday, reported Express...
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Won’t allow bureaucrats to meddle with elections: Najam Sethi
LAHORE: Senior journalist Najam Sethi took oath as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab on Wednesday, reported Express News. Speaking to the media after taking oath, Sethi said he will not allow any...
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Supreme court advocate shot dead in Rawalpindi
RAWALPINDI: Unidentified armed men shot and killed Supreme Court advocate Chaudhry Muhammad Khan in Rawalpindi on Thursday evening, Radio Pakistan reported. According to police sources‚ the incident...
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For PML-N, awarding tickets proves uphill task
LAHORE: For Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), awarding party tickets for the upcoming polls is proving to be an uphill task. While the party has finalised candidates for Balochistan and Sindh...
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Fraud case: Protesters demand police investigation
DERA GHAZI KHAN: More than 100 people protested in front of the regional police office on Wednesday against the police’s alleged inaction following complaints of recruitment fraud. Police had...
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Elections security: ‘1,273 polling stations sensitive’
FAISALABAD: More than 8,000 officials would be lodged as part of a security plan for the upcoming general elections in the district, police said on Wednesday. Aamir Waheed, a police department...
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Service delivery: Four arrested for passport office riot
FAISALABAD: Four people were arrested for vandalising the Regional Passport Office (RPO) and causing a riot here on Wednesday. When some applicants asked why their passports had not been delivered, a...
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Rabies: 5,000 people die every year in Pakistan
LAHORE: Rabies, a disease which causes around 70,000 deaths annually in the world, can be prevented through proper vaccination. This was stated by Prof Dr Athar Khan of the University of Veterinary...
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Forensic medicine: UHS MPhil programme not approved by PMDC
LAHORE: Two years since the start of the MPhil in forensic medicine at the University of Health Sciences (UHS), the programme is yet to be registered with the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council...
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Seat adjustment: PTI workers want Khan to take back decision
BAHAWALPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers set up a protest camp on Wednesday against the recent announcement regarding seat adjustment in Bahawalpur. The camp has been set up at Fawara Chowk and...
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Badami Bagh attack: Senators to visit Joseph Colony tomorrow
LAHORE: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights will visit Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh tomorrow (Friday). The panel has summoned the Inspector General of Punjab Police and the divisional...
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Najam Sethi to meet Sharif brothers today, Imran Khan tomorrow
LAHORE: Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi will meet Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday (today) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman...
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Violence against women: Man kills wife for ‘honour’
BAHAWALPUR: A man and his brother were arrested on Thursday for allegedly killing the former’s wife over alleged elopement. Police said Muhammad Akram Gopang, a resident of Nabipur near Abadpur, took...
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Pollution by tanneries: Kasur to get a secondary treatment plant
LAHORE: Officials of the Kasur Tanneries Waste Management Agency, the Environment Protection Department and the Kasur DCO agreed, in a meeting held last week, to channel funds for building a...
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GCU convocation: ‘We have stood out for promoting tolerance’
LAHORE: As many as 1,400 students were conferred degrees at the 11th convocation of the Government College University on Thursday. The ceremony was held at GCU’s Oval ground. Governor Makhdoom Ahmed...
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Jamaat-i-Islami: ‘No alliance with PPP, PML-Q, MQM, ANP’
MULTAN: “Jamaat-i-Islami has a seat-to-seat adjustment policy. We are talking to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and some religious parties in this regard,” JI central...
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Caretaker CM: Sethi consults politicians on bureaucrats, IG
LAHORE: Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi consulted the heads of several major political parties in the Punjab on Thursday to discuss bureaucratic postings ahead of the general elections. Sethi...
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