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Thalassemia Day: ‘55,000 Pakistanis are thalassemia patients’
MULTAN: More than 55,000 people in Pakistan are suffering from thalassemia, participants at a fund-raising event were told here on Wednesday. The event, organised to mark World Thalassemia Day on May...
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Election duties: 11 officials arrested for failure to provide staff lists
LAHORE: Police arrested eleven officials of various departments and produced them before Liaison Officer Sher Abbas Awan of the District Election Cell on Wednesday to explain why they had not supplied...
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Lahore-Karachi operation: 3 ‘target killers’, two cops killed in shootout
LAHORE: Police stormed into a house in Valencia Town on Wednesday and shot dead three men wanted for several murders in Karachi, losing two constables in the process. Lahore police surrounded the...
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'Flawed elections': Qadri to lead protest at PA on election day
LAHORE: Tehreek-i-Minhajul Quran chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Wednesday announced that his party will stage a sit-in across the country on May 11. He was addressing a press conference at the Minhaj...
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Animal abuse: Tigress’ ‘death’ spotlights a larger issue
LAHORE: The star of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s election campaigns – a white tigress –reportedly collapsed on Wednesday and is presumed to have died due to excessive heat during a rally in Lahore....
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Constituency profile: Will 58,500 new voters be enough?
LAHORE: Residents of NA-123 (Lahore-VI) have been known to shift their party support. In the 1970s and 1980s, some of the areas that make up the constituency were a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)...
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Voting rationally: Don’t let emotion cloud your decision, says Shahbaz
LAHORE: The electorate should choose which party they will vote for on the basis of their record rather than on the basis of emotion, otherwise Pakistan will suffer further, said PML-N Punjab...
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Constituency profile: PTI, PML-N in battle for City’s gateway constituency
LAHORE: There is a large ground in Kot Shahabuddin, Shahdara, where kids play cricket and football every evening. Last Saturday night, however, it presented a different picture. The audience was...
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Several trapped as fire erupts at LDA plaza in Lahore
LAHORE: A fire that erupted at the LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton road trapped several persons inside the building, reported Express News on Thursday. A man reportedly fell from the seventh...
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Former PM Gilani’s son kidnapped in Multan
MULTAN: The youngest son of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Ali Haider Gilani, was kidnapped after an attack on a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) gathering in Multan on Thursday. Unidentified...
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LHC issues notice to DCO Lahore over PML-N tigress' death
LAHORE: The full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a notice to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Deputy Commissioner Office (DCO) Lahore after receiving a petition from Faryal Gohar...
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Police raids: Eight robbers’ gang members arrested
FAISALABAD: Police claim to have arrested eight men, who they said belonged to a criminal gang, on Thursday. They say stolen items worth millions of rupees have been recovered from them. Ameer Nasir...
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Appointments, terminations: AG asked for details on powers of caretakers
LAHORE: Admitting a petition for hearing, the LHC chief justice on Tuesday sought a reply from the Punjab advocate general (AGP) on the termination of law officers by the caretaker provincial...
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Endangered species: LHC moved against PML-N’s tiger show
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has issued notice for May 14 to the Election Commission secretary and other respondents on a petition seeking directions for the PML-N not to exhibit wild cats at its...
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‘We didn’t start the fire’
LAHORE: “This impression is baseless that the fire was ignited by any officer under a conspiracy,” a Lahore Development Authority spokesman said in a press release on Thursday, referring to the blaze...
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Last words: ‘Don’t worry, Rescue 1122 will save us’
LAHORE: Hafiz Muhammad Talha was at home when he heard that the LDA plaza was on fire. The 19-year-old immediately called his father Talib Hussain, a stenographer at the Lahore Development Authority,...
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Army-controlled constituency: Will PTI break PML-N’s NA-125 winning streak?
LAHORE: NA-125 has a record of returning Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidates, but this time Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf appears to have a lot of support this time promising a close contest between...
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Trial by fire: Fear, anguish, anger and, for some, relief
LAHORE: Relatives of LDA employees trapped in the burning tower watched in horror as people plummeted hundreds of feet to their death to escape the flames here on Thursday. At least eight people were...
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Bahawalpur profile: In the land of the nawabs
BAHAWALPUR: The people of Bahawalpur are drawn to personalities. They often remember those that left an impact, and discard those that failed to do so. During the previous electoral cycles, the five...
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Jhelum campaign trail: The ‘pardesis’ come home to vote
ISLAMABAD: Almost 15% of the 700,000 registered voters in Jhelum district have never seen a polling booth. They have been living abroad, swamped with busy schedules, and all too aware of the costs of...
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