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Literacy and education: Schools, colleges budgets show nominal increases
LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated Rs25 billion for development works in education sector for 2013-2014, almost 9 per cent of the Annual Development Programme of Rs290 billion for the...
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Development funds: Punjab announces another ambitious development programme
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Monday presented its biggest ever Annual Development Programme (ADP) with a total outlay of Rs290 billion for the financial year 2013-14, compared to Rs250 billion in...
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Punjab budget: Playing to their strengths
LAHORE: In the coming year, Punjab will become the first province to have a provincial budget that crossed the trillion-rupee line, with Finance Minister Shujaur Rahman announcing a Rs1.2 trillion...
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Tourism: Walled City youth training as guides
LAHORE: The Walled City of Lahore Authority is currently training 25 men and women as tourist guides, The Express Tribune has learnt. The guides, all of whom are residents of the Walled City, are...
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Future Concern: Bank accounts traced in visa fraud case
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has traced 23 bank accounts linked to Future Concern Associates (Pvt) Ltd, an immigration consultancy firm charged with committing fraud. Clients of the...
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Fraud: LHC orders arrests
LAHORE: Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Zobia Rubab Malik and her husband Asim Malik, chief executive of Future Concern. The judges...
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Other Narrative: Relatives of man killed in police encounter protest
LAHORE: Relatives and family members of a man allegedly killed in a police encounter staged a protest demonstration against the police on Tuesday. The protesters, all residents of Shahdara, blocked...
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Appointment: ‘Ahad Cheema not qualified to head LDA’
LAHORE: Justice Shezada Mazhar of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought a reply from the Punjab government on a petition challenging the appointment of Ahad Cheema as director general of the Lahore...
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New businesses: Two arrested for issuing false fitness certificates
MULTAN: Two men were arrested in Layyah on Monday for issuing false CNG cylinder fitness certificates by pretending to be regional transport officials. The alleged head of the gang fled the scene....
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Art exhibition highlights different styles of young artists
LAHORE: Established artists and art enthusiasts gathered to appreciate the printmaking, miniature paintings, installations, and digital images exhibited at the Alhamra Arts Gallery. The exhibition...
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Save the children: Two more lives lost to measles in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: Two more children died of measles on Tuesday taking the death toll in the district this year to 48. Two-year-old Ahmad Sultan of Jaranwala Road, and seven-month-old Harram Shehzadi of...
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Post budget conference: ‘Finance commission after local government election’
LAHORE: The government hopes to constitute a Provincial Financial Commission (PFC) after holding local government elections in October 2013. The commission — a provincial version of the National...
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Child pronounced dead at hospital found alive
FAISALABAD: A child pronounced dead at Allied Hospital on Tuesday is fighting for his life at the intensive care unit. Ghulam Rasool, a relative of the child, said the baby, Ayan Hussain, aged 18...
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Alternative angle: Tahir Mehdi relives the Motorcycle Diaries
LAHORE: “People will always give precedence to basic amenities like roads, water and natural gas because they affect their lives the most,” said journalist Tahir Mehdi speaking at a seminar on...
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Motive for murder: Ahmadi man killed ‘because of his faith’
LAHORE: A member of the Jamaat-i-Ahmadia was shot dead in Green Town, allegedly because of his faith. Four armed teenagers entered Jawad Karim’s house on Monday and shot him dead. They then walked...
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Cylinder blast in Gujranwala plaza injures seven
GUJRANWALA: A cylinder blast caused by a generator in the basement of Deen Plaza on GT road injured seven, reported Express News on Wednesday. A motorcycle shop located in the basement used liquefied...
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PML-N leader’s party membership suspended over bus hostess slap incident
The party membership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nighat Nasir Sheikh was annulled on Wednesday for harassing and slapping a bus hostess, Express News reported. According to reports,...
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'Blasphemous newspaper': Court denies bail to Ahmadi distributors
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court dismissed bail applications on Wednesday of two Ahmadi men with blasphemy cases registered against them at Islampur police station. Presided by...
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Man arrested for sexually assaulting girl's dead body in Gujranwala: Report
GUJRANWALA: The man, allegedly responsible for sexually assaulting a minor girl’s dead body in Qila Didar Singh, Gujranwala, has been arrested, the police claimed. According to Hindustan Times, the...
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Govt to spend Rs7.5 billion on medicines: Minister
LAHORE: Health Minister Khalil Tahir Sindhu on Wednesday said free medicines worth Rs7.53 billion would be provided free of charge at government hospitals. The health minister said compared to the...
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