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New appointments: Sacked law officers move LHC for reinstatement
LAHORE: A petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court challenging the fresh appointment of 19 law officers at the Advocate General’s Office by the caretaker Punjab government. The government had...
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Supply to industries: FESCO headquarters pelted with stones
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) headquarters in Faisalabad was attacked on Monday by scores of factory workers, who were protesting against an increase in load-shedding...
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Code of conduct: NA candidate among 33 PML-N workers arrested, 25 flee
MULTAN: Lohari Gate police arrested 33 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz workers, a candidate National Assembly on Monday for allegedly defying policemen who raided a corner meeting in Asharafabad and...
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Returning to traditional ways: ‘PMDC urged to register eastern medicine...
BAHAWALPUR: Speakers at a conference on natural medicines on Monday urged the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council to register practitioners of eastern medicine to provide patients with an option to...
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Election leave: Private schools object to May 8-13 closure
LAHORE: Private schools have indicated that they will stay closed for two extra days during the elections and not for five extra days as mandated by the provincial government. The Schools Education...
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Human trafficking: FIA foils bid to smuggle 28 people to Libya
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday caught 28 people attempting to travel to Libya on fake Protectorate of Emigrants stamps, The Express Tribune has learnt. FIA Immigration...
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Musharraf plea: LHC sends case to back of election queue
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday deferred indefinitely a petition moved by former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf challenging a tribunal’s decision to disqualify him...
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The minority vote: ‘For whoever can protect us’
LAHORE: Christian voters from Joseph Colony, where an angry mob torched over a 100 homes two months back, have indicated partiality towards the two largest political parties in the country in the...
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‘Un-Islamic democracy’: The other election campaigning
LAHORE: While the major political parties have ramped up their electioneering as polling day fast approaches, at the same time a raft of smaller groups, most of them religious, have stepped up...
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Youth arrested for child rape
FAISALABAD: A youth was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl. The child was taken to the district headquarters hospital, where doctors treating her said that her condition...
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Untimely demise: Independent candidate in Faisalabad passes away
FAISALABAD: Elections in Faisalabad’s NA-83 and PP-51 are set to be postponed after a candidate running from both the constituencies passed away on Tuesday. Muhammad Amjad Rabbani was taken to Allied...
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Joseph colony: Nine arson accused granted bail
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday granted bail to nine men accused of torching the homes of residents of Joseph Colony, Badami Bagh, after a Christian was accused of...
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Load management: Industries to close down from May 10-May 12
FAISALABAD: The District Load Management Committee has decided to close down all industrial units in the district from May 10 to May 12 to provide uninterrupted supply to the rest of the district....
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Governance failure: ‘Cost of power failure almost Rs1.3tr’
LAHORE: The power shortage cost the economy Rs1,272 billion and 1.5 percentage points of growth rate in 2011-12 and is one of the major governance failures in Pakistan, according to a report prepared...
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Persecution: Anti-Ahmadi group targets community again
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on Tuesday. The...
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Constituency profile: Round 3 of Khokhar vs Khokhar
LAHORE: The contest for this National Assembly constituency (NA-128) will be a repeat of five years ago, but whether the result will be a repeat is hard to predict. Malik Afzal Khokhar of PML-N...
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Five-year record: Hits and misses in the health sector
LAHORE: On one side there are shiny new hospitals and free medicines, and on the other tainted drugs and doctors’ strikes. In its five-year term, the PML-N led Punjab government expanded health...
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Protest against police for freeing suspects
FAISALABAD: The family of a woman, who returned home on Tuesday night after she was allegedly kidnapped in March, protested against Dijkot police on Wednesday for allegedly releasing two of the...
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Citizens kill four after death in robbery
MULTAN: Four men, said to be robbers, were killed on Wednesday shortly after a citizen a shot on resisting a robbery in Dera Ghazi Khan died. Police said four masked men stopped Shah Dost, 28, near...
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Code violation: Decision reserved in Imran Khan case
LAHORE: District Returning Officer (DRO) Nazir Ahmad Gajana has reserved his decision for May 9 (today) on Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s alleged violation of sections of the Election Commission’s...
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