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Jailbreak foiled: The not-so-great jail-break plan
GUJRANWALA: Police on Saturday claimed to have foiled an escape plan hatched by prisoners brought to the sessions court. According to police, a central jail prisoner, Naveed, on Saturday morning...
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Lawyers’ convention: ‘CJP should not address returning officers’
LAHORE: Speakers at an All Pakistan Lawyers Convention (APLC) on Saturday objected to a planned address of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to the returning officers calling it an attempt to...
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Final countdown: PTI preparing for its final match
LAHORE: “Match fixing by Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will be exposed and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf will emerge victorious on May 11,” says PTI candidate from...
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Election security: ‘500 polling stations declared sensitive’
LAHORE: The candidates would be provided security so that they can run their election campaigns without any fear, Lahore Commissioner Jawad Raffique Malik told The Express Tribune on Saturday. Malik...
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Women emancipation: ‘PML-N most popular party among women’
LAHORE: Former chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML–N) is the most popular party among women. The efforts of PML-N’s Punjab government for women’s...
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Sethi shakes things up: 27 DCOs and 8 RPOs replaced
LAHORE: Caretaker Chief Minister Najam Sethi said on Sunday that he had finalised a three-phase strategy for a comprehensive transfers plan in the bureaucracy in order to ensure that the upcoming...
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Obituary: Pakistan Saraiki Party chief Taj Muhammad Langah passes away
MULTAN: An icon of the movement for a southern Punjab province, Pakistan Seraiki Party chief Taj Muhammad Langah passed away at the age of 73, Sunday morning in Multan after a cardiac arrest. Only...
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Fraudulent loans: NAB arrests two
LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Punjab chapter on Sunday arrested one, Imran Rafiq, over fraudulently obtaining a loan of Rs20 million. Zahid Iqbal, the NAB Punjab Awareness and...
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Two men killed, couple injured
JOHARABAD / MIANWALI / KUNJAH: Two men were killed and an elderly couple was injured on Sunday in three incidents. Police said Nasir, a resident of Officers Colony, was shot allegedly by Shafi and...
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Dengue awareness: Second PMA half- marathon held
LAHORE: The Pakistan Medical Association and Mortein jointly organised the second PMA Lahore Marathon to raise awareness against dengue here on Sunday. Doctors, students, athletes and members of the...
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Healthcare: ‘Patients are our top priority’
LAHORE: Radical changes have been made to the Lahore General Hospital to provide better services to patients, said PGMI Principal Anjum Habib Vohra while addressing a meeting on Sunday. He said...
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Street crime: Three arrested for killing constable
FAISALABAD: Three men accused of killing a police constable during a robbery have been arrested, police said on Sunday. SSP (Investigation) Mujahid Akbar Khan said that Constable Zahid Kareem was on...
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Thy neighbour’s garbage: LWMC to advise Indian Punjab on waste disposal
LAHORE: The Indian Punjab government is likely to sign a memorandum of understanding for consultancy the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) in the next 14 days following final approval from the...
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Scrutiny of nominations: 80 rejected in Multan, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur
FAISALABAD / MULTAN / BAHAWALPUR: Returning officers on Sunday rejected nomination papers of 80 candidates in Faisalabad, Multan and Bahawalpur. In Faisalabad, nomination papers of Rana Zahid Tauseef...
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State of rights: Intolerance rising, writ of state weak
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday called for attention to pressing human rights challenges in the country. A statement issued on the conclusion of the annual general...
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Chief justice speaks: ‘In supreme national interest’
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry asked returning officers on Sunday to render their duties without being influenced. Addressing the district returning officers, the...
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DI Khan: Govt schoolteacher gunned down
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unidentified men killed a public schoolteacher near Malana Link Road, Syedabad, a Gomal police official told The Express Tribune on Sunday. Ihtisham Ali, son of the deceased told...
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Alleged favouritism: PTI supporters not happy with ticket allocation
FAISALABAD: More than 100 Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf supporters staged a demonstration on Sunday to protest the denial of party tickets to Faizullah Kamoka and Sarwar Kisana. Kamoka and Kisana have...
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Sharif brothers cleared of tax evasion
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif was cleared of tax evasion in a report submitted by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on...
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Christian vote appears drifting towards PPP
LAHORE: A 0.9 million-strong Christian community, mainly residing in central Punjab, forms the dominant minority within the province. Unlike the Sikhs and Hindus, who have a thin presence, the...
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