NCA thesis display: Making lives easier through better design
LAHORE: Ammara Mumtaz’s red and green cutlery is placed in a row on a single shelf. A white wall, on which she has painted deformed hands in black paint, serves as a backdrop. It takes a minute to...
View ArticleConsumer court: Marble shop told to pay up
LAHORE: A consumer court on Tuesday ordered the Al-Rahman Marble Shop to pay Rs17,800 damages to a petitioner for selling him substandard tiles. Petitioner Javed Iqbal said he had purchased marble...
View ArticleSSP reprimanded for failure to find muggers
LAHORE: Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday berated SSP (Investigation) Babar Bakht Qureshi for being unable to arrest the perpetrators of a vicious mugging, but left the...
View ArticleHospital death: Family protest after child dies during surgery
FAISALABAD: The family of a 10-year-old boy, who died during treatment at Allied Hospital, staged a demonstration in front of the hospital on Monday. They shouted slogans against the doctors and the...
View ArticlePolice actions: Three killed in ‘encounter’
FAISALABAD: Police on Tuesday claimed to have killed a proclaimed offender and his two accomplices in what they called an encounter with the criminals in Jhang. The shootout occurred in Satellite...
View ArticleBahawalpur province: ‘Makhdooms and Gilanis cannot decide our fate’
BAHAWALPUR: “We will not let any Gilani or Makhdoom determine the fate of Bahawalpur province,” Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi, leader of the Bahawalpur National Awami Party (BNAP), said on Tuesday. He was...
View ArticleZulfiqar Khosa's son joins PPP
ISLAMABAD: Son of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa joined Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Wednesday. Saifuddin Khosa made the announcement during a press...
View ArticleSwitching sides: Saifuddin Khosa’s split major blow to PML-N in South Punjab
LAHORE: In a move sure to shake up the political landscape of South Punjab, Saifuddin Khosa, son of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stalwart and Senior Adviser to the Punjab Chief Minister,...
View ArticleLHC hears petition calling for ban on dual national bureaucrats, army men
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday admitted for regular hearing a petition that calls for banning bureaucrats and army men who have dual nationalities. Citizen Khalid Mahmood filed the...
View ArticleAdmissions: NCA principal to reply to corruption allegations
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a reply from the National College of Arts principal to a petition alleging corruption in the admissions process for 2013. Muzammal Abbas, who had...
View ArticleMugging: SSP given till Feb 18 to arrest ‘real culprits’
LAHORE: Justice Nasir Saeed Sheikh of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday, accepted a police officer’s request and granted him more time to trace and arrest the men who robbed a lady health worker. On...
View Article‘Flour shortage’: CM’s assistant inspects flour mills, shops
FAISALABAD: “There will be no compromise will be made on the price and quality of wheat flour. Strict action will be taken against violators,” Special Assistant to the Chief Minister for Food and...
View ArticleInstitute of Communication Studies: Students demand reinstatement of director
LAHORE: Students of the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) at Punjab University (PU) staged a protest against the university administration on Wednesday over the removal of Dr Ahsan Akhtar Naz...
View ArticleMiniature art: Hazara artists portray pain of persecution
LAHORE: For Shakila Haider, an ethnic Hazara, the persecution of her community has lasted a lot longer than the last few years of targeted killings and bomb blasts in Balochistan. Her family lived...
View ArticleTargeted killings: Nawaz criticises govt’s failure to improve law and order
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has strongly criticised the government for turning a blind eye towards targeted attacks in Karachi, following the killing of the...
View ArticleRepercussions: Ripples in DG Khan’s political landscape
MULTAN: More parliamentarians are expected to join the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) following in the footsteps of Saifuddin Khosa, MNA Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) who joined the PPP on...
View ArticleEid Milad security: 3,696 police officials to protect 276 processions
FAISALABAD: The law enforcement agencies have taken elaborate measures to beef up security across the city in connection with Rabiul Awal 12 processions and milad sessions. According to City Police,...
View ArticlePeace building: ‘Positive mind crucial for conflict resolution’
FAISALABAD: Speakers at a seminar on peace building and conflict resolution stressed the need for resolving conflicts through a positive frame of mind, tolerance, commitment and a pragmatic approach....
View ArticleGas cylinder explosion: DHA blast leaves 40 injured
LAHORE: At least 40 people were injured on Wednesday when a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen of a restaurant in H-Block, Defence Housing Authority (DHA). No death had been reported by the time...
View ArticleRental power plants case: SC asked to stop NAB ‘interfering with probe’
LAHORE: An application has been filed before the Supreme Court’s Lahore registry that seeks to restrain three officers and an additional prosecutor general of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)...
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