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Fair process: Blasphemy trials in high courts suggested
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has recommended that the first trial in a blasphemy charge should be heard at a high court and that no case should be registered without investigation...
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Urban interventions: Model Town or mere copy, the case of a Lahore...
KARACHI: Imagine the British reaction when they looked at India’s higgledy-piggledy bazaars and winding, narrow ‘slums’. A colonial officer once wrote something along the lines of how the natives had...
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Measles in the city: ‘Vaccination cover in Punjab shamefully low’
LAHORE: Measles has claimed 41 lives over the past four months and 8,699 children have contracted the disease in the Punjab, said Health Minister Salima Hashmi on Sunday. Addressing a press...
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Sunni Ittehad Council chairman Sahibzada Fazal Karim passes away
FAISALABAD: Chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Haji Sahibzada Fazal Karim passed away in Faisalabad on Monday, reported Express News. The funeral prayers for the deceased chairman will be...
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New Charge: Demolition of dilapidated buildings ordered
MULTAN: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah has directed the officers concerned to demolish all dilapidated buildings before the monsoon season began. He was presiding over a...
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Earth Day 2013: WWF extends tree plantation drive to hospitals
LAHORE: The World Wildlife Fund-Pakistan will include hospitals, along with schools and colleges, in its Tree Plantation Drive 2013 as part of the 43rd International Earth Day campaign. The drive...
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Energy conservation: Govt workers welcome five-day week
LAHORE: Almost all Punjab government employees have welcomed the caretaker government’s decision to observe two holidays a week, saying that it will improve their lives as well as their attitude...
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Jati Umra: City govt to reply on notification by April 24
LAHORE: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Monday sought a reply from the city district government on a petition challenging a notification to stop construction on around 2,000...
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Linesman’s murder: FESCO employees protest against police
FAISALABAD: Hundreds Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) workers staged a demonstration on Monday in front of Fesco headquarters on Sargodha Road to demand immediate arrest of those who killed...
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Loadshedding Woes: Ministry of Water and Power directed to submit report
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Monday directed the Ministry of Water and Power to submit a report about steps taken to control electricity theft and loadshedding....
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Big Brother: Special cell activated
LAHORE: On the orders of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Aftab Sultan, the special cell set up in the Operation Branch of the Central Police Office (CPO) was formally activated on Monday to take...
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Award Ceremony: Lady health workers in Multan recognised
MULTAN: Save the Children and the Punjab Lady Health Workers Programme on Monday presented awards to selected lady health workers (LHWs) in the province for their distinguished performance. The...
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Student politics: Five arrested for protesting expulsion
MULTAN: Five students at the Bahauddin Zakariya University were arrested on Monday for protesting against the vice chancellor for expelling 30 students the day before. Ijaz Bashir, the BZU public...
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New DPO opens anti-polio campaign
BAHAWALPUR: “Elimination of polio from the district is the only way to secure our children’s future,” District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chatta said on Monday. He was addressing the inauguration of...
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Measles upswing: 70 more cases, most kids were not vaccinated
LAHORE: “Eighty per cent of children with measles have not completed their vaccination while the parents of the remaining 20 per cent say they got their children vaccinated but don’t have proper...
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‘Sensitive matter’: Jail trial requested for Sawan Masih
LAHORE: The police headquarters superintendent on Monday requested Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Ghulam Murtaza to hold trial proceedings for Sawan Masih, accused of blasphemy, in a...
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Fate of PPP lies buried in Gari Khuda Bakhsh: Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
MULTAN: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday addressed a public gathering in Multan announcing the names of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders who had joined PTI. Claiming that the real...
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Election rallies: Rent a cavalcade for the campaign
LAHORE: The business for car rental companies is said to be rather slow these days as several candidates, still waiting to receive party tickets, have not begun campaigning. “Business is not...
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Measles on the rise: 3 children dead, 90 cases admitted in hospitals
LAHORE: Three more children died of measles in the city on Tuesday. Three-month old Abdullah of Ghazi Road died in Children’s Hospital, three-month old Jannat of Islampura also died in Children’s...
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Sheikh Waqas Akram gets back in election race
SARGODHA / LAHORE: An election tribunal accepted the appeal of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sheikh Waqas Akram, making him eligible to contest the upcoming elections from NA-89 Jhang...
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