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Man kills two daughters, wife
ISLAMABAD: A man shot dead his wife and two daughters before killing himself in the I-10 area of Islamabad on Wednesday, Express News reported. Initial reports suggest the man, Afzal Rana shot two of...
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‘Property dispute’: Man accused of killing baby granddaughter
GUJRANWALA: Garjakh police suspects that a two-year-old who was found lying dead in a water tank on Wednesday had been killed by her grandfather. They said the man had had a property dispute with his...
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Election Violence: PML-Q worker shot dead
LAHORE: A man was shot dead here in Ferozewala on Wednesday, apparently in a dispute over the placement of election advertisements. Iftikhar Jafri, 40, was putting up banners and posters in support...
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‘Protecting thy neighbours’: Man attacked with acid for ‘having an affair’
MULTAN: Two brothers attacked a man with acid in Muzaffargarh on Tuesday for allegedly having an affair with a girl from the neighbourhood. One of the assailants was arrested. He told police that...
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Punjab’s development budget to have Rs200b outlay
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided that the next development budget for the province will have an outlay of Rs200 billion, out of which 80% of the funds will be allocated for ongoing...
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Code of conduct: 72,000 violations reported in Punjab
FAISALABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received 72,395 complaints about the violation of election code of conduct in the Punjab since it launched a monitoring system across the...
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Fair elections: Why weren’t the heads of police posts reshuffled too?
LAHORE: While officers from the highest ranks (such as regional police officers) to the lowest (moharrars) have been transferred across the province ahead of the elections in an attempt to allay...
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Labour Day: ‘I’d rather get a day’s wage than take part in a May Day rally’
LAHORE: Manzoor Ahmad was busy working at an under-construction plaza on Ravi Road on Wednesday (Labour Day) when trade unions, labour organisations and rights activists were busy taking out a rally...
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‘Grassroots worker’ against ‘outsiders’ and ‘new faces’
LAHORE: This constituency garnered a lot of interest and became the topic of choice in many discussions right at the start of the election madness. The reason: film actress Meera was rumoured to...
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Campaign trail: On the prowl with the ‘Lion of Punjab’
OKARA / LAHORE: A peacock spreads his feathers in the manicured lawns of the Raiwind estate, in Lahore. But this is not peacock territory, Raiwind is home to the ‘Lions of Punjab’, the Sharif...
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20,000 policemen to perform guard duty
FAISALABAD: As many as 20,000 police officials will perform guard duty at polling stations in the Faisalabad district on May 11, Police spokesman Sub Inspector Ameer Nasir Javed told The Express...
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Tough contest for two seats in Hazro Tehsil
ATTOCK: As the election day approaches, competition between two candidates on the provincial assmebly seat in Hazro tehsil is getting the most attention in the area. In PP-16 Attock II, the total...
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Federal Control: LESCO not acting as an independent DISCO: LHC
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday observed that the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) was not functioning as an independent distribution company in that it took orders from the federal...
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Media talk: ‘Karachi violence a local phenomenon’
MULTAN: The violence against certain political parties in Karachi is a result of differences between these parties and some local groups,” Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf president Javed Hashmi said on...
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Multan Road villages ravaged by hepatitis
LAHORE: In the past five years, Aslam, a resident of Baath village, has lost seven friends to hepatitis. Close to half of the village’s residents, he says, have been infected with the disease in the...
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Banking on loyal ‘80,000 voters’ to upstage a tsunami
LAHORE: Days before the country’s highly anticipated general elections, the fight for Lahore’s NA-122 constituency entails a clash of the titans. Although the PML-N has won this seat by impressively...
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11 grid stations in Lahore come to a halt
LAHORE: Power supply in different areas of Lahore was cut off since 8am, Express News reported Saturday. The affected areas include Shalimar Bagh, Chah Miran, Badami Bagh, Bhati Gate, Kot Lakhpat,...
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Medical Negligence: Woman dies ‘from injection’
FAISALABAD: A woman died on Friday from an injection she received at a private clinic here, her family alleged. Sajida Bibi, a resident of Chak 202-RB, was taken to the clinic, near Bhai Wala Park,...
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YDA wants judges on PMDC election body
LAHORE: Retired judges should be made part of the commission conducting the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) elections to ensure that they are free and fair, the Young Doctors Association...
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Economic snapshot: ‘Tax evasion root cause of all our problems’
LAHORE: “Our original sin has been tax evasion. We are stuck in a vicious cycle that leads to inadequate services by the government.” This spurs further tax evasion, said economist Dr Hamza Malik on...
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