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Road to prosperity: ‘Upgrade police to combat terrorism’
LAHORE: Interrogation of terrorists has revealed that several foreign elements are involved in exacerbating terrorism in Pakistan, especially in Karachi and Quetta, said defence analysts, columnists...
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Second Amendment anniversary: Speakers call for isolation, banishment of Ahmadis
LAHORE: Several clerics called for further persecution of the Ahmadi community at conferences held on Saturday night to mark the 39th anniversary of the passage of the Second Amendment, which declared...
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Texting teachers: SMS-based monitoring off to encouraging start
LAHORE: Imagine access to details of enrollment, attendance and visits by monitoring officers in every school. Imagine the interventions that could be made in light of this information to improve...
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Protecting heritage: Lal Haveli might be sold to plaza developer
LAHORE: Lal Haveli, situated inside the Lohari Gate near Awami Bazaar, might be sold as a site for a commercial plaza, The Express Tribune has learnt. The Walled City of Lahore Authority officials...
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Habeus corpus plea: Police search for body of missing man feared killed in...
LAHORE: The Faisalabad regional police officer (RPO) told the Lahore High Court on Monday that police were looking for the body of a missing man feared to have been killed and dumped in a canal by...
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Bhakkar shooting: DCO orders release of 18 arrested suspects
BHAKKAR: District Coordination Officer Mumtaz Hussain Zahid on Monday ordered the release of 18 men arrested last week under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance for the...
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Dengue alert: Two arrested after larvae, mosquitoes detected
FAISALABAD: A district administration team, comprising Health and Environment Protection Department officials, on Monday detected dengue larvae in Anwar Nursery and the swimming pool of Minerva Club....
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Blasphemy alleged: LHC suspends sessions court’s orders against columnist
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday suspended a lower court’s directions to the police to register a blasphemy case against columnist Ajmal Niazi for portraying Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as...
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Death in custody: DSP briefly detained for ignoring summons
LAHORE: A DSP was briefly detained by Additional District and Sessions Judge Sadiq Masood on Monday for failing to turn up to some half a dozen hearings of a private complaint regarding a teenager’s...
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Literacy Day: 70% of youth is literate, says Unesco
LAHORE: Around 70 per cent of young Pakistanis can read and write, something which only half the general population is capable, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
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Education dialogue: ‘Teachers should focus only on teaching’
LAHORE: Teachers should be focussed solely on imparting education and not on duties outside the classrooms such as going door to door to enrol out-of-school children, said speakers at a dialogue here...
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Tragic accident: 14 killed as truck crashes into van near Chiniot
CHINIOT: As many as 13 people were burnt to death and several other were injured when a truck collided with a van on Lahore road, on the outskirts of Chiniot late on Monday night, the Express News...
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Literacy drive: ‘Enrolment target achieved in Faisalabad’
FAISALABAD: The goal to enrol 256,000 children under the Emergency Enrolment Campaign has been met and efforts are underway to enrol more students in rural areas, District Coordination Officer (DCO)...
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Food safety: UVAS launches MPhil programme
LAHORE: The Academic Council of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) approved a new MPhil degree programme in food safety and control on Tuesday. The UVAS Department of Food...
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Anti-beggary campaign: 48 beggars arrested
FAISALABAD: Accelerating its anti-beggary campaign, the Social Welfare Department on Tuesday rounded up 48 beggars, including three women, from various parts of the city. Social Welfare District...
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Police conference: DPOs must inspect all encounter scenes
LAHORE: District police officers (DPOs) have been directed to personally inspect the scene of all police encounters to make sure that extra-judicial killings are not passed off as shootouts with...
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Hazardous brews: Tainted liquor death toll reaches 15
BAHAWALPUR: The number of deaths from consuming tainted liquor in Rahim Yar Khan has reached 15, The Express Tribune has learnt. Six men died on Tuesday, after nine had died the previous night....
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Sessions Court: Seven suggestions to improve security
LAHORE: The screening system should be replaced and snipers and sniffer dogs deployed to provide better protection to litigants and prisoners, as well as lawyers and judges, at the District and...
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Schools and teachers: ‘Education spending should follow budget script’
LAHORE: While the Punjab government has raised the education budget considerably over the last five years, it now needs to start improving utilisation and spending money as planned, rather than...
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Road accident: 18 killed as van collides with truck
FAISALABAD: Eighteen people were killed on Tuesday when a passenger van collided with a speeding truck on Chiniot-Pindi Bhattian Road. Three others were severely injured, and were taken to the...
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