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Birth anniversary celebrations: ‘Manto was much more than a controversial...
LAHORE: “In early ‘50s Manto predicted a close alliance between America and the Pakistani mullahs to defeat the Soviets,” said Shahid Nadeem, the writer of the play Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh, staged by...
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ECP orders vote re-count in PP 198
MULTAN: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday ordered recounting of votes in seven polling stations of PP-198. The decision came after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate from the area...
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Forgotten fire
Amidst the frenzy and hype surrounding the May 11 election, the fire which broke out at the LDA Plaza, in Lahore, two days before this date and was not fully controlled even 24 hours later, has been...
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Measles outbreak: ‘Substandard vaccines administered to children’
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday issued a notice to the government for a reply and directed the medical superintendents of three public hospitals to appear in court on May21, with the...
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Post-election: ‘PTI set to become ruling party’
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi said on Saturday the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) should start an indiscriminate inquiry against corrupt politicians and...
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Political Rivalry: ‘Hard task ahead for PML-N’
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood, who has resigned as Punjab governor, said on Saturday the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s government-to-be had a hard task ahead of it. Speaking to the media at...
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Hope lives on: Keeping faith in a promise — for six years
ISLAMABAD: Six years have passed, but Shamim Akhtar’s hopes in a politician’s promise have not dwindled. On the day Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, Akhtar was languishing on a footpath in front of...
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Mysterious death: Hafiz Saeed’s security chief murdered
MULTAN: The body of Khalid Bashir, chief security officer for Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)’s Hafiz Saeed, was found near Sheikhapura canal on Mureed Kay road in Lahore. The JuD is the charity wing of...
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Beaten to death: Man found killed at home
BAHAWALPUR: A man was beaten to death on Sunday by three unidentified people in Rahim Yar Khan. Division-B police said the deceased was a money lender and had apparently been killed by some men he...
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Court orders: Man recovered from illegal detention
FAISALABAD: A court bailiff recovered a man from the illegal detention of Gulfishan police on Sunday. The action was taken on a petition filed by Khurram Shehzad, a resident of Sana Park. The...
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Negligent construction: Couple, daughter die in roof collapse
GUJRANWALA: Three people died and three others were injured on Sunday when a roof of an under-construction house collapsed. The injured were taken to a hospital, where doctors treating them said that...
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Cruelty to animal: Cases registered against six town employees
FAISALABAD: D-Type Colony police have registered cases against six Allama Iqbal Town municipal administration employees for killing a citizen’s buffalo. Muhammad Arshad, a resident of D-Type Colony,...
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LHC judge forced to withdraw order
Moeed Ayaz, Asmatullah, Razaullah and Ghulamullah, employees of Black Arrow Printing Press, were arrested by Islampura police on January 7. On Friday, their bail petitions under Sections 295B...
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Taking to streets: 10 rickshaw drivers arrested for protesting against fines
BAHALWALPUR: As many as 10 rickshaw drivers were arrested and cases were registered against them on Sunday after they refused to end a protest against traffic police. The Rickshaw Union president was...
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Elections 2013: Zardari blames ROs for PPP’s defeat in Punjab
LAHORE: Fuelling doubts about the transparency of the May 11 elections, President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the returning officers (ROs) played an important role in the elections. “If I get [the...
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Fire hazards: LDA never followed through on safety training request
LAHORE: “Had people been given basic fire safety training, my brother would still be alive,” said Imran Raza, brother of accounts officer Syed Abu Zar Raza, who perished after being trapped on the...
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Load shedding: Outages leave operation theatres in the dark
LAHORE: Over 60 operations have been put off in the last few days at Jinnah Hospital because of load shedding, according to sources in the hospital. Around a thousand people visit the 1,400-bed...
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Governance: Helping youth better understand democracy
LAHORE: As many as 1,000 people in 18 districts across the country said all of them would vote in the general elections even though only 20 per cent of them had voted previously. The District...
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System of government: Bureaucrats lobby Sharifs for plum jobs
LAHORE: Bureaucrats are thronging the Sharif residences in Raiwind and Model Town to get jobs in the next federal and provincial governments. Since May 12, a tent has been in place at Jati Umra,...
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Load shedding: Power and water shortages at public hospitals
LAHORE: Doctors have demanded that load-shedding at public hospitals be ended as power outages are delaying important operations and restricting the provision of medical services to the poor. Dozens...
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