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Debilitating disease: ‘A million children suffer from thalassaemia in Pakistan’
FAISALABAD: As many as a million children in the country suffer from thalassaemia. Efforts must be made to raise awareness about precautions and to encourage people to donate blood, said Government...
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Mission unaccomplished: Two arrested for plot to blow up priest’s house
FAISALABAD: Two men were arrested on Wednesday for plotting to blow up a priest’s house in Batala Colony, police said. An accomplice of theirs was killed the night before when the explosives he was...
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Revivers Galleria: Women, tradition and architecture
LAHORE: The Revivers Galleria in Gulberg unveiled Diverse Artistic Expressions, an exhibition of paintings, by renowned artists AQ Arif, Tariq Javed, and Moazzam Ali on Wednesday. The works will be...
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Punjab University: PTV seeks return of controversial ICS teacher
LAHORE: Pakistan Television has asked the Punjab University to return an employee serving on deputation as an assistant professor at the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) after his involvement...
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Blasphemy: ‘Prisoners say I deserve to die’
LAHORE: “Other women prisoners say that I deserve to die because I’m a blasphemer,” a woman, accused of defiling two copies of the Holy Quran, told the Additional District and Sessions court on...
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Economic plan: PML-N to delay budgets by a few weeks
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government in the Punjab, as well as the Centre, is likely to delay the budget for 2013-14 by three or four weeks, The Express Tribune has learnt. The...
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Nawaz nominates Shahbaz for CM Punjab slot
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has nominated his brother Shahbaz Sharif for the post of chief minister of Punjab, Express News reported on Thursday. Shahbaz had...
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Petition against Altaf Hussain: LHC issues notices to MQM, PTA, PEMRA
LAHORE: Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has issued notices to Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Pakistan Electronic Media...
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Metro Bus: Drivers protest against poor working conditions
LAHORE: The Metro Bus service was held up briefly on Thursday afternoon when bus drivers staged a protest at Gajju Mata against their working conditions. Around a dozen drivers began the...
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Ring Road: Collapsed bridge had been declared dangerous
LAHORE: An incomplete pedestrian bridge which collapsed on the Ring Road near Defence Phase 4 on Thursday had been declared dangerous by engineers eight months ago, The Express Tribune has learnt....
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MQM leadership: Stay order sought on Altaf’s speeches
LAHORE: Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday issued notices to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), the Pakistan...
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Premiere: Not reluctant to say this film is great
LAHORE: “I am very excited and at the same time it is a very strange feeling that my book has been made into a movie,” said writer Mohsin Hamid, at the premiere in Pakistan of The Reluctant...
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Tailor issued notice for ruining clothes
LAHORE: A consumer court on Friday issued notice to a tailor for May 28 in a suit seeking Rs50,000 in damages for ruining the petitioner’s clothes. Petitioner Ghulam Hussain contended that his family...
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Team work: SSP told to withdraw case against colleague
FAISALABAD: District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Rasheed Qamar censured a senior superintendent on Friday for registering a case against an investigation officer for removing a section from a case....
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LWMC ratifies waste management treaty
LAHORE: The Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) and waste management companies from 60 countries ratified the Istanbul Waste Management Consensus at the International Waste Management Conference...
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65-year-old eyes a 6th academic degree
BAHAWALPUR: Muhammad Sadiq Abbasi, 65, a retired school teacher, is sitting a master’s examinations for the sixth time. He already has master’s degrees in Persian, history, political science,...
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Righting wrongs: Larger bench sought to reopen Bhagat Singh, Ghazi Ilmuddin...
LAHORE: A single bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday referred two petitions to the chief justice, seeking the reopening of cases of Ghazi Ilmuddin Shaheed and Bhagat Singh, with the request to...
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Job hazard: Journalist shot dead ‘for helping police’
MULTAN: A newspaper reporter was shot dead on Friday in Bahawalnagar apparently for helping police in an investigation. Two roadside vendors were also injured. One of them later succumbed to his...
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1999 coup: Commission demanded to investigate ‘hijacking case’
LAHORE: A petition seeking a judicial inquiry into the alleged hijacking of a plane by the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999, that the then army chief Pervez Musharraf was travelling in, was...
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Public health: The slippery slope to drug addiction
LAHORE: “For some, doing drugs is a way to impose their superiority over their peers. For others it is a rebellion against social norms. But for me, it was about blending in with my peers, being able...
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