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Fertiliser hoarding: 130 urea bags recovered, sold
Farmers fear paddy yield will go down due to artificial shortage.
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Understanding signs and symbols adorning scripture
Museum hosts lecture on Quranic manuscripts.
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Art exhibition: Iranian calligraphers’ work on display
Artists are on a one-week trip to Pakistan.
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Encroachments re-visited: Ramazan slows down city’s clean up drive
Town officials too occupied operating, monitoring Ramazan Bazaars.
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CM Punjab orders action against cops present at US consulate dinner
Directs Chief Secretary, recommending the Federal Government to make the accused eight, OSDs.
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‘Risky’ venture: Insurers refuse to back Punjab’s cab scheme
Fearing financial losses, insurance companies balk at serving the initiative.
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Punjab’s preparations: Still no chopper as flood threat looms ahead
Shahbaz Sharif exhausted the helicopter’s flying hours on monitoring development work in far-flung districts.
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Fake encounter: IG ordered to act against guilty officers
Accused say they were merely following orders from the top.
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Shumaila was not forced to resign: CM
PML-N leaders warned of ex-parte proceedings.
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FIA catches 2 agents of Gondal gang
The men were illegally transporting 6 youths to Greece last month.
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Veteran: 109-year-old policeman calls on IGP
Muhammad was born in Mudhki, Ferozepur (India) in 1902 and had joined the Indian Police in 1924.
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Teaching hospitals: ‘Demolishing to build is no solution’
DHQ hospital officials protest decision to demolish ward and housing.
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Progressive politics: ‘Left can reclaim lost political space’
Speakers say youngsters should engage in politics, public interactions.
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Ashiyana Housing: We will end homelessness, says Nawaz
Allotment letters distributed for houses in Soraba Atari.
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Reading the Constitution: Can parliament really create new provinces?
Federal and provincial govts issued notices.
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Liver transplant: Hope after despair - a breakthrough
Transplantable organs so far are kidneys, liver, pancreas, heart, eyes and lungs.
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FIA arrests two sub-agents of international human traffickers
Says it has unearthed national network of Zahid and Shahid Gondal, the fugitive human traffickers in Sialkot.
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Petition challenging creation of new provinces accepted in LHC
Petitioner says formation of new provinces is 'conspiracy against Pakistan'.
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Servant beaten to death for not feeding dogs
A woman allegedly thrashed her house servant to death in Valencia town in Lahore.
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NICL scam: As Qureshi resumes probe, FIA officials ‘misplace’ files
Sources say govt decided not to allow meetings of investigation team or access to case files till Elahi’s acquittal.
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New provinces: Shujaat calls for public awareness on the issue
Shujaat says issue of creation of new province is on administrative grounds rather than on a linguistic basis.
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Missing Men: Police given till Aug 17 to recover lawyers
The district police had arrested dozens of lawyers and had booked 34 of them on terrorism charges.
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VCs’ Appointment: Judge refuses to hear case over ‘conflict’
Appointment of vice chancellors to six public universities was deferred on Monday by a division bench of the LHC
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Extreme measures: Boy shoots sister, a relative
She had suggested her brother get married.
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Auction date for hotel, super store plots reset
Daewoo and Nishat to compete for the prize on September 10.
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Contempt of court: Commissioner, DCO’s no-case plea rejected
Traders say they were arrested, shops razed despite stay order.
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Freedom at last: 4 kidnapped children free after 2 years
Say they and their mother were held in Kohat; she is still missing.
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South Punjab: Wahab links new province to vote for PPP
Accuses PML-N of spending most of the development funds on Lahore.
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Déjà vu: Low flood warning in Sutlej at Ganda Singh
Water from River Jhelum inundates Okhli Mohla village in Khushab.
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4 of robbers’ gang arrested
MPA handed back stolen valuables, praises police for alertness.
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Environmental concerns: SC reserves judgment in canal road widening case
Government shows flexibility, pushes for project to go ahead.
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One killed, female pilot injured in PAF plane crash
Plane crashes near Bhakkar. The pilots manage to eject from the plane using a parachute and are safe.
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Dangerous driving: Five dead, several injured in accidents
30 injured taken to Services Hospital, 55 to Mayo Hospital.
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Blocking system: Rescue 15 workload reduced by half
More than 100 lines still being blocked every day.
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Hit-and-run: New Zealand man arrested
Rashid Ahmed was taken to Services Hospital where he was under treatment for a fracture in his right leg.
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Volunteering to make a difference
Students organise Independence Day celebrations at SOS Children’s Village.
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Landlord slits servant’s throat in front of dera
Ahmed said Yousuf was involved with his daughter.
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Cop calling: Protesting against police apathy
Hundreds of residents rally outside Thikriwala station against SHO.
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Independence Day: Painting the town green
Traders report brisk sales, flag-raising ceremonies held all over city.
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I’ve brought crime rate down: CCPO
Lahore Police release statistics for police chief’s three months in charge.
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Kalma Chowk: ‘To Lahore, happy Independence Day’
Flyover opens, engineers prepare to build two new underpasses on Ferozepur Road.
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Bloody murder: Five of a family butchered
Police found the five bodies after neighbours said they could smell the rot from their houses.
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Punjab’s role in Pakistan’s Freedom Movement
While the political awakening for a separate identity had started in Bengal in 1906, it gained momentum in Punjab.
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Anjum Aqeel case: PML-N lawmaker out of jail on bail
Aqeel insists the cases against him are false.
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New federating units: Shahbaz supports both Bahawalpur, Seraiki provinces
Joint opposition in the Punjab Assembly re-submits South Punjab resolution to secretariat.
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Pre-dawn abduction: American ‘aid expert’ kidnapped in Lahore
Warren Weinstein picked up two days before he was due to return home.
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Building evacuation: Bomb hoax keeps Zafar Qureshi from resuming probe
NICL scam investigating officer finds office locked following hoax call. Building cleared by Bomb Disposal Squad.
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Child rape: 5-year-old raped
Residents caught and beat the rapist before handing him over to police.
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Flood Warnings: 2 nullahs in Sialkot overflow
A nullah in Sialkot has flooded with 19,500 cusecs of water.
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Police Torture: Family blames CIA for man’s death
Nazar Muhammad, 25, was arrested by CIA officials on July 28 while he was working at a brick kiln.