Legal aid: ‘Saeed’s lawyer should clear Pakistan’s name’
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Umar Ata Bandial has asked Jamaatud Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed’s lawyer to argue his case in terms of international law. The CJ was holding proceedings on a...
View ArticleHigh court bar: Candidates out to woo voters
LAHORE: Candidates for the Lahore High Court Bar Association elections 2013 are out to woo the voters these days. As the date for the elections February 23 approaches, the candidates have started...
View ArticleFilm festival: Three day FiLUMS to screen 90 films
LAHORE: Almost 90 films will be screened at the LUMS International Film Festival FiLUMS 2013 that opened here on Friday. More than 200 participants have registered before the official opening...
View ArticleElection strategy: PML-Q demands 55 NA seats in talks with PPP
LAHORE: The gridlock remains between Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) over the issue of seat adjustments. Resultantly, both parties have decided that the issue...
View ArticleJudges appointment: LHC CJ wants bars not to boycott JC proceedings
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial has said it is a constitutional duty of the bar representatives to attend the meetings of the judicial commission constituted for the...
View ArticleHashmi Talks To Media: ‘Sheikh Rasheed is being neglected that same way I was’
MULTAN: Addressing reporters separately, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf President Javed Hashmi said that the party would not become part of any conspiracy to install an interim government for three years....
View Article‘Illegal by-elections’: ‘PP-239 fell vacant in November last year’
LAHORE: The constitution does not allow elections in constituencies, which fall vacant 119 days or less before the expiry of the assembly’s tenure. Under the law, the PP-239 (Vehari) by-election...
View ArticleA first: Metro Bus Service to be inaugurated tomorrow
LAHORE: The 27 bus stations of the Metro Bus Service were being prepared on Friday for the project’s inauguration on February 10 (tomorrow). Work continues round the clock on the elevated bus way....
View ArticleCaretaker government: ‘Dr Qadri and PTI share apprehensions’
MULTAN: Within days of showing its support for Dr Tahirul Qadri in his demand to dissolve the Election Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi held a press...
View ArticleEducational endeavour: VCs appointed to two medical universities
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Saturday appointed Major General (r) Muhammad Aslam and Professor Faisal Masud as vice chancellors (VC) to the University of Health Sciences (UHS) and King Edward...
View Article‘New provinces not the way the PPP wants’
DERA GHAZI KHAN: The federation has no right to decide the boundaries and division of a province, said Sirdar Zulfiqar Khosa, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senator. He was addressing a press...
View ArticleCrime scene: Four of family found killed at home
MANDI BAHAUDDIN: A woman and her three children were found killed at their home on Sunday. Police said they had been poisoned and later stabbed with a knife. The bodies were sent to the district...
View Article737 buildings declared unfit for use
FAISALABAD: As many as 737 factories, shops and houses in various areas of the city have been declared unfit for use in a report prepared the Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) after a survey of...
View ArticleEnergy resources: Gas project inaugurated in Bajwat
SIALKOT: A natural gas supply project in Bajwat was inaugurated on Sunday. This project will supply gas to 35 villages in the Pindi Khokaran, Head Marala and Chaprar union councils. The inauguration...
View ArticleMBS Inauguration: The long wait is over
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday inaugurated the Metro Bus System at the Nishtar Colony terminal. Foreign delegates, MNAs, MPAs and citizens were present on the occasion. After the...
View ArticleCancer treatment: ‘Conservation surgery in breast cancer is safe’
LAHORE: Breast conservation surgery along with radiation has become an accepted alternative to complete removal of breast for patients on an early stage of breast cancer because of a comparable...
View Article‘Film industry has bright future’
The day began at the LUMS International Film Festival with a screening of the film The Blue Veins, based on Saadat Hasan Manto’s Neeli Ragein. Director Zeeshan Kazmi, who also plays the lead role,...
View ArticleImran Khan says ECP change won’t delay polls
CHAKWAL: The reconstitution of the election commission will not delay the polls, claimed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan. He expressed displeasure that the PTI had not been...
View Article400,000 substandard cough syrup bottles seized
BAHAWALPUR: Some 400,000 bottles of cough syrup worth hundreds of thousands of rupees sent to the rural health centre two weeks ago have been found to be substandard and was seized by the Health...
View ArticleMetro Bus Service: Lahore latest member of ‘Metro Bus Club’
LAHORE: Lahore Development Authority Director General Ahad Khan Cheema said on Sunday Lahore had joined the Metro Bus Club that included 147 cities around the world. He was speaking shortly after...
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