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Triple Murder: Pregnant woman, child found slaughtered
MULTAN: Shabana Bibi, a 28-year-old woman, and her six-year-old son were found killed at their house in Chah Jammuwala on Tuesday night. Her brother Nauman, who discovered the bodies said he...
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Awaiting approval: ‘Salaries and pensions to be raised soon’
LAHORE: The government is expected to issue a notification in a few days to raise salaries and pensions as announced in Budget 2013-14. According to a summary sent by the Finance Department on...
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LHC tells petitioner to prove maintainability
LAHORE: Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Justice Ijazul Ahsan on Wednesday asked the petitioner to establish maintainability of his petition challenging the appointment of Acting Advocate General Mustafa...
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Parha Likha Cholistan: Cholistan teachers, students set up mock school camp...
BAHAWALPUR: Several students and teachers of Cholistan Community Schools staged a demonstration in front of the commissioner’s office on Wednesday to protest an impending shut down of 75 community...
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Children’s Hospital: CM orders inquiry into three deaths
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered an inquiry into the death of three children at Children’s Hospital. Relatives of four-month-old Mustaqim from Sargodha, nine-month-old Ghulam Abbas...
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Workshop: ‘1.8 million affected by learning disabilities’
LAHORE: The people of Pakistan must recognise the alarming problem of learning difficulties, which afflict up to 10 per cent of the population, Justice (retired) Nasira Javed Iqbal has said. The...
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Brutal crime: Newly-wed axed to death by husband
BAHAWALPUR: A woman was axed to death by her husband on Wednesday. He was arrested shortly after the murder, when he was trying to flee. Tabassum Shaheed area police quoted the woman’s family as...
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Low-cost medicine: Officials withdraw Interferon money from CEMB account
LAHORE: A project to manufacture Interferon locally for the treatment of Hepatitis C patients at a fraction of the cost of importing the medicine has suffered a further setback as the funds that were...
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LDA Plaza: Forensics experts confirm fire not an accident
LAHORE: In a report bound to raise questions about the cause of the LDA Plaza inferno of May 9 that killed 25 people, the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA) has concluded that a small fire at the...
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Home bound: Runaway children return for uncertain reunion
LAHORE: A bus that left an Edhi Home in Karachi on July 12, with the aim of reuniting 50 children with their families, made its way to Lahore on Wednesday morning. As many as eight of the children,...
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Election 2013: Scrutiny of by-polls nominations complete
BAHAWALPUR: The scrutiny of nominations for the upcoming polls has been completed and initial lists have been displayed by returning officers. Eight candidates nominations have been found in for...
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‘Women should have double vote’
FAISALABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Chaudhry Amjad Ali Javed has called for giving women a double vote. Speaking at a seminar on Participation of Women in Electoral Process at National Level...
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Assaulting A Judge: LHC asks bar to take action against four lawyers
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has sent a reference to the Punjab Bar Council for initiating action against four lawyers for allegedly assaulting a judge. Lahore Senior Civil Judge Chaudhry Farrukh...
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Public safety: City officials prep for action against chemical godowns
LAHORE: Local government officials are trying to identify storage sites for dangerous chemicals in residential areas and preparing a plan of action to relocate them in the wake of last week’s blaze...
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Love affair: Man arrested for poisoning nine of a family
MULTAN: A man was arrested in Muzaffargarh on Thursday for killing 10 members of a family by poisoning their food on May 30 with help from a woman. The woman, Shaheen Bibi, is already in police...
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USAID-MEPCO: MEPCO gets real time access to feeder status
MULTAN: The USAID Power Distribution Programme has implemented the Load Data Improvement (LDI) programme at Multan Electric Power Company to help reduce unscheduled load shedding. The USAID technical...
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Quadruplets born to Mian Channu woman
MULTAN: A woman gave birth to quadruplets on Thursday at a private clinic in Mian Channu. Doctors said the woman and the four babies- three boys and a girl- were all doing fine. Farzana Bibi, 28, a...
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Group exhibition: Art with feeling, and without
LAHORE: Paintings by five youths went on display at a group exhibition titled Modern Life here at The Drawing Room art gallery on Wednesday. Julius John, one of the participants, said he had tried to...
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Healthcare: ‘Pakistan ranked 7th in diabetes prevalence’
FAISALABAD: As many as 6.9 million people suffer from diabetes in Pakistan and the figure could go up to 11.5 million by 2025 if steps are not taken now to control the disease, Government College...
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Hard times: Tehmina Durrani to launch ‘jihad to save children of war’
LAHORE: Author Tehmina Durrani announced that she was embarking on a “new jihad” to rehabilitate children affected by war as she briefed the media on her new book here on Thursday. “We have to take...
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