Punjab

Rights activists demand social security, registration for workers.

20 applicants await word, UHS posts not yet advertised.

Teachers would be hired through exams conducted by the NTS.

Minorities can elect representatives in Parliament while voting for general seat candidates through the system.

LHC directs Food Dept to stop distribution from politicians’ houses.

Convention demanded that the government set a 10 per cent quota for traders in the National Assembly and the Senate.

SNGPL officials disconnected supply to 1,100 houses in Nasir Nagar, Ghausia Colony and several other housing colonies.

Railway Station bomb blast in which four people, including two children, had died as a result of the explosion.

Say he will be produced in court after he has identified his accomplices.

Artist said his work on silk on water colours on silk had not been done by any artist in Pakistan so far.

Administration accused of seizing wheat stock from 67-acre disputed plot without court orders.

Suit against third doctor accused of botching surgery to continue on May 17.

WASA to recruit three new directors, 15 deputy directors.

Insiders say work is far behind schedule and could take another two years.

‘Grossman-Kayani meeting should not cause any undue concern’.

Says Pakistan was going through an evolutionary phase, and all institutions were working in their proscribed place.

Traced phone conversation between two terrorists indicates that Adiala prison was next on the TTP’s hit-list.

Police said that the suspects had confessed to over a hundred robberies.

Abducted allegedly over converting and marrying against her family’s wishes.

Home Dept says 2,000 illegal immigrants in Lahore.

LQM leader condemns cases against ‘genuine workers’.

Promises made to revive the culture of Cholistan Desert.

Arts Council arranges Urdu poetry book launch.

Village provided with biogas power plant, technical training institute and primary education and healthcare facilities

Dr Abdul Qayyum was allegedly detained for links to banned outfit.

Chief minister says Bus Rapid Transit System will be completed this year.

Visitors able to see less and less of historic buildings thanks to scribblers and carvers.

Inspectors assess facilities for college’s affiliation with UHS.

Petitioner pleads for Rs50,000 damages for “mental agony” for shoes worth Rs1000.

De Montmorency College students will need to go elsewhere for classes.

Friend of murder accused thrashed by complainant’s friends.

With machines busted, no mechanism in place to measure emissions of pollutants.

Microsoft, Cisco, Hawaway, Oracle, Teradata and Transworld agree to help students.

CCPO says it is necessary to set up CCTV cameras and deploy guards at the city’s commercial centres.

Two sewerage inlets from Nawabpura society flow into the canal.

‘Beating up children should be made a criminal offence’.

26 students of rival group released on bail.

Accuse police of supporting illegal occupation of a residential plot.

‘Most successful businessmen started with modest means, bright ideas’.

Rivalry between Khosa, Awan heightens after office of Punjab governor was vacated after Salmaan Taseer’s murder.

Gilani says PML-N is afraid of the upcoming ‘friendly’ budget.

Petitions filed in Lahore High Court seek explanation from Gilani for holding office after being convicted.

Punjab governor, PML-Q leader speak in favour of Gilani, criticise Sharif.

Baby girl was born in Taunsa Sharif on Monday with an extra arm joined to her back.

Former airport security officer says apex court’s order not followed.

Court asks police to produce seminary head in court.

Tells police to keep arrest record at both the post and the police station.

Farmers say they were detained at the mills, rescued later by police.

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah was on leave on Friday.

Foreign students at Punjab University share their experiences.