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Overcoming crisis: Crackdown ordered against power pilferers
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered a crackdown against all people involved in electricity and gas theft and said strict action should be taken against such people without any...
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Blasphemy trial: Court sends defendant to mental hospital
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge has postponed a man’s trial for alleged blasphemy and sent him to the Punjab Institute of Mental Health for treatment. Judge Syed Imran Ali based the...
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Cost of food: High prices at Ramazan Bazaars vex customers
FAISALABAD: “Prices of commodities at Ramazan Bazaars are beyond the reach of an average consumer,” Shaista Naureen, a shopper at Jhang Model Bazaar, said on Saturday. She said, “I checked all stalls...
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Development plans: First laptops, now tablets
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that the government would launch a pilot health insurance scheme in four districts. It would be gradually extended to other districts. Data from...
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Saving mothers: The Rs10 wonder drug
KARACHI: Ten rupees could have saved 20-year-old Rukhsana’s life. And all it would have taken is for the dai to pop a pill in her mouth when she started bleeding after delivering at home. That pill...
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On the run: Chotu Mazari takes refuge in Balochistan
LAHORE: Chotu Mazari, the outlaw who has police ever since negotiations for release of hostages broke down, reported to have reached a hideout in Rakni near Barkhan district of Balochistan. Reports...
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Safety Features: Departments pass the buck on inspection failure
LAHORE: City officials of various departments have denied responsibility and shifted blame on to each other for the lack of inspections at chemical storage sites, one of which caught fire on Friday...
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Hazardous chemicals: Warehouse fire threatens to choke Walled City
LAHORE: A fire at a chemicals godown in Delhi Gate on Friday not only destroyed merchandise worth millions of rupees before it was put out after more than nine hours of fire fighting, but also...
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Man beaten up, thrown from second floor
GUJRANWALA: A man was beaten up and thrown from the second floor on Sunday allegedly by a group of men he had accused of killing his brother. He was taken to Civil Hospital, where doctors treating...
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Eight passengers burn in van fire
LAYYAH: Eight people sustained burns on Sunday when a passenger van caught fire while being refilled at a CNG station in Layyah. Rescue 1122 officials said a gas leak caused the explosion. The...
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Out of focus: ‘Ministers for minorities must give up other posts’
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance Founders (APMAF), celebrating its founding day on Sunday, demanded that the minorities affairs ministers additional portfolios be withdrawn. Pakistan...
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Violence against women: Man confesses to throwing acid on wife
BAHAWALPUR: A woman was severely burnt in an acid attack by her husband in Khanpur on Saturday. The woman’s father, *Ghulam Yaseen, a resident of Mohalla Azeem Shah, told The Express Tribune that his...
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False allegation: Court orders 15-year old’s release
BAHAWALPUR: Additional Sessions Judge Sardar Akram Khan, on Saturday, directed a bailiff to recover a 15-year old who had been detained at the A Division police station in Rahim Yar Khan. Petitioner...
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Congested streets: Citizens protest against encroachment
LAHORE: Residents of Wandala Road, Shahdara, on Sunday requested Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take notice of encroachments on the main bazaar. They said shopkeepers and motorists passing through...
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LHC seeks report on CNG cylinder crackdown
Realising the danger of substandard CNG cylinders installed in public transport vehicles, the Lahore High Court ordered authorities last week to take action against owners of school vans, ambulances...
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Fading traditions: When was the last time a drummer woke you up?
FAISALABAD: “All our lives the men of my family have been waking up the faithful for the Ramazan fast. Now I am the only one left. Everybody else has given up,” says Shaukat Ali, a drum beater, from a...
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Prioritise education: ‘To educate the girl child, educate the community’
LAHORE: As many as 3.2 million children between the ages of five and nine years are out of school in the Punjab, United Nations Children’s Fund Education Officer (gender) Sehr Raza Qizilbash said at...
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Police stations: For some SHOs, home is a flooded office
LAHORE: DIG Operations Muhammad Tahir Rai recently instructed all station house officers (SHO) in the city to think of their police stations as their homes, because they were required to stay there at...
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Interior minister’s directive: Massive reshuffle of officers at FIA
LAHORE: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has reshuffled its staff posted at all major airports and has transferred heads of its important circles. The change follows direction given by the Federal...
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Missing facilities: Education spending to be focused on girls’ schools
LAHORE: The Schools Education Department is to provide drinking water, electricity, toilets and boundary walls at 2,500 government primary and elementary girls’ schools all over the province and...
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