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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
PUNJAB Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the government has decided in principle to launch a low-cost housing scheme for homeless people and the project will be formally initiated within a few days.
Speaking at a briefing to PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif on public-welfare projec
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Wrong answers in PA expose Auqaf minister |
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By Faizan Bangash
LAHORE
‘COMPETENCE’ of another Punjab minister was exposed on Monday after he failed to satisfy the legislators and relied merely on the textual answers sent to him by the officials of his department.
Ehsanuddin Qureshi, the provincial minister for Auqaf, elected on a PML-N ticket fro
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Plan to attack hotel foiled |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
THE CIA Police, Lahore, on Monday claimed to have foiled an attack on Americans, staying in a five-star hotel in the City and arrested six terrorists, including a suicide bomber.
Addressing a press conference, SSP Investigation Zulfiqar Hameed said the CIA Police arrested a pot
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Opp stages walkout to protest attack on Sh Rashid |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
Opposition benches in the Punjab Assembly staged a brief boycott of proceedings to protest an attack on Shaikh Rashid of the PML-Q.
Opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Zaheer condemned the attack on Shaikh Rasheed. He alleged that the PML-Q candidate in Rawalpindi was
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Rain inundates low-lying areas |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
RAIN in the provincial capital on Monday left various city localities inundated and civic authorities once again failed to drain rainwater. At least 7mm rain was measured at Lahore airport and 6mm in the City. Maximum temperature in the city was 17.5 C while minimum was 11 C. MET offic
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US ambassador donates $0.2m to Labard |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
US Ambassador Anne W Patterson Monday handed over a cheque of $200,000 as donation to Muhammad Pervaiz Malik, president of the Lahore Businessmen Association for Rehabilitation of the Disabled (Labard).
US Political Counsellor Bryan D Hunt, Labard Senior Vice-President Mian Nus
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Rain hits power transmission system |
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By Umer Bhatti
LAHORE
RAIN on Monday hit electricity supply and the duration of loadshedding in the City increased up to eight to 10 hours.
LESCO consumers complained that they saw flames in transmission lines during rain and noise generated by tripping power transformers was another nuisance. They s
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LHC CJ takes notice of bus hostess gang-rape |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif on Monday took suo motu notice of a deplorable incident of kidnapping and gang rape of a Daewoo Bus Service hostess in Sialkot.
The CJ ordered the Sialkot district police officer (DPO) to appear before the court along with
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Aafia repatriation plea disposed of |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
The Lahore High Court on Monday disposed of a petition seeking directions to the federal government to take steps for the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddqiui after being convicted by an American court.
Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry directed the foreign ministry to have consultation
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Campaign to combat terror |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
The Alif Laila Book Bus Society, which has for over two decades run a library for children housed in a bus, has initiated a campaign which, it believes, could help the country escape the scourge of terror.
The ‘Advocating Reading’ campaign is based on the premise that the readi
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Students asked to improve skills |
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
STUDENTS must focus on technical communication skills, integrity, interpersonal skills, loyalty and motivation along with the companies’ requirements at the time of job interviews.
This was stated by Faculty of Veterinary Science Dean Prof Dr Nasim Ahmad on the first day of a fi
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Is PM a sovereign, sovereign? |
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Mian Saifur Rehman
LAHORE
I don’t know why some people are hell-bent upon making a molehill out of a mountain (applying the law of reversal of phrases) by virtually rendering our elected-by-the-people chief executive a spineless creature who just can’t make independent moves on the chessboard spread out on his
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