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Follow-up planned in consulate case
LAHORE: The US Consulate General will be served a second notice on Monday if the one sent on Friday is not complied with, The Express Tribune has learnt. The district coordination officer sent a...
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Law and order: Robber killed in shootout with police
LAHORE: A man suspected of robbery and other crimes was killed in a shootout at a picket in Kahna, police said on Saturday. Two men on a motorcycle were stopped at the picket, police said. They tried...
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Prosecution delay: Record summoned in bail petition
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday said he wanted to see the police record on June 6 in an after-arrest bail plea of a man accused of killing his landlord. The brother of...
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State of schools: Education Dept to identify ghost schools
FAISALABAD: The Education Department has decided to initiate a survey of all schools in the district, to identify ghost schools. Spokesman of the EDO Education, Muhammad Naeem, told media on Saturday...
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For better or worse: Court marriages on the rise
FAISALABAD: The district courts here received an average of 150 cases of couples hoping to solemnise marriage at courts each month. According to court data, as many as 903 couples had applied for...
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‘Lucky draw’: PPP wins a National Assembly seat reserved for women
LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was able to win a third reserved seat for women in the National Assembly from the Punjab on Saturday after its candidate Beelum Husnain won a draw. The PPP...
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Measles outbreak: ‘Health officials need to improve their attitude’
FAISALABAD: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Najam Ahmad Shah on Saturday said the spread of measles in the district was due to negligence on the part of the Health Department staff. He was...
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Pious intentions: PTI, PML-Q promise a constructive opposition
LAHORE: Mian Mehmoodur Rashid, the parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf at the Punjab Assembly, said, “We will be a constructive opposition at the assembly and act in the best...
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Stand out parliamentarians: First Sikh MPA since partition takes oath
LAHORE: Saturday marked a historic milestone for the Sikh community in the province. A Sikh representative, for the first time since 1947, took oath as a member of the provincial assembly in Punjab...
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1st Punjab Assembly session: Smooth sailing despite a small delay
LAHORE: Save the 45-minute delay in its beginning, the first session of the 16th Punjab Assembly on Sunday saw little hullabaloo, with the oath-taking of all 341 elected members wrapped up smoothly...
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Animal farming: UAF, Livestock Dept to setup model cattle market
FAISALABAD: A model cattle market would be set up at the Proka Research Farms on Narwala Road by the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) in collaboration with Livestock and Dairy Development...
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Disease prevention: 6-year-old dies of measles
FAISALABAD: A six-year-old girl from Tandlianwala died of measles on Saturday, Allied Hospital doctors said. The deceased was brought to the hospital 10 days ago. On Saturday, the girl died at her...
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Treating as commodity; Man beats wife for refusing to go with another
FAISALABAD: A man was arrested in Chiniot on Sunday shortly after he beat his wife allegedly for refusing to go with another man to whom he said he had lost her in a gamble. The woman, a resident of...
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Serving people and advancing one’s own cause
After years of complaints, applications and unfulfilled promises, it seems that some of Hajj pilgrims’ problems will be solved as the Lahore High Court chief justice wants the Hajj Group Organisers to...
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‘Caught red-handed’: Robbers beaten up, handed over to police
GUJRANWALA / MULTAN: Two men said to be robbers were beaten up by a mob on Sunday and handed over to police. Another man who had been with them fled. The two men were taken to a hospital before they...
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Austerity measures: ‘Country needs to cut down spending’
LAHORE: Former chief minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz governments in the Centre and in the Punjab would practice austerity. In his address to provincial...
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Peace not war: “We are in favour of Kashmir’s freedom”
LAHORE: “I appeal to Pakistanis and Indians to take practical measures by withdrawing troops from Kashmir as a first step to initiate peaceful dialogue,” said Council for Indian Foreign Policy...
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Prohibition: ‘Don’t issue liquor permits to Christians’
LAHORE: Two Christian men moved the Federal Shariat Court on Saturday against the provision of permits to Christians for selling and consuming alcohol, calling it a stigma on Christianity. Petitioners...
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Children’s Day celebrations: Avari Hotel plays host to SOS Village children
LAHORE: It was an exciting day for Faizan, 10, who decorated cup cakes with cherries, sprinkles and white icing, for the first time in his life at the Children’s Day celebrations held at the Avari...
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Best practices: ‘Poor sterilisation methods risk infections’
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association (YDA) wrote to the Health Care Commission on Saturday complaining about a lack of proper sterilisation of medical equipment in several hospitals in the city. The...
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