Punjab

Bangladeshi aid workers with experience of floods wanted to come to Pakistan but were unable to get visas.

Serious concern expressed over police brutality against students of Quaid-i-Azam Medical College.

The situation is getting worse as frequent reports of brawls and police torture have been reported.

Malik Ghulam Raza got 12,969 votes, followed by PML-Q candidate Adnan Chaudhry who had 2,901votes.

Director General Rescue 1122 Punjab Dr Rizwan Naseer claimed that the rescue centre is not responsible for negligence.

The passengers, Khurram Shahzad and Yousaf Maseh, were carrying heroin on a Malaysia-bound Thi Airways flight.

Women in South Asia need to actively campaign to find solutions to common challenges.

PTCL workers have decided to continue their strike after negotiations with the management failed.

LHC chief justice has directed the defence secretary to appear in person on August 27 in two missing-persons cases .

The rising water level in the Ravi has been a blessing for boat operators.

Jinnah was an intimate and exclusive event that kept the attendees enraptured and intrigued.

Health officials say they are prepared to handle 500 deliveries a day.

Met Office alerted Kasur district administration to remain prepared for a possible flood in case India releases water.

The NA 184 by-polls, scheduled to be held on August 25, have been postponed by the ECP until September 4.

A World Bank team held a meeting with the Punjab University vice-chancellor and other senior faculty members.

Arrangements have been made to provide foolproof security at the PP-13 by-elections to be held on Wednesday.

Four people including two women were killed early Tuesday morning by repeated assaults over a family feud.

Three people Mian Jalil, Athar and Mazhar had allegedly beaten a 13-year-old boy after accusing him of theft.

Police and Rescue 1122 have reportedly blamed each other for the lynching of two brothers in Sialkot.

The 2 cities are being provided contaminated water from the Rawal Dam but no remedial measure has been taken so far.

The acute shortage of relief items has been observed in areas located in the south of Muzaffargarh.

Floodwater, ruined crops and rubble greet those returning back to Daira Din Panah.

The judge directed the law officers to explain why local administrators were operating when their tenure had lapsed.

The Punjab government has abolished six of its task forces because they became a drain on public finances.

Poudel came to Lahore to attend the one-day South Asian conference on Role of Women in South Asian Movements.

Questions raised about bureaucrats not having same eagerness to serve the public that people’s representatives did.

Holding bits of bread flood affectees raised slogans against the administration for not supplying them with food.

An affected patient told The Express Tribune that he had been waiting for two hours for protests to end.

The explosion occurred while the oil tanker was being welded in a workshop near GST Chowk in Faisalabad.

Given the escalating trust deficit between the people and the government, the floods pose a challenge for us all.

4,637 out of these were found safe, while, 2,364 were found adulterated and unfit for consumption.

Flood victims continue to face problems as relief goods have not yet reached several localities.

Public transport ploughing through the twin cities are not nearly enough to meet the growing demands of the people.

Prof Malik stressed the need for changing the question paper patterns to avoid stereotyping.

The water flow in the Ravi has surged from its pre-monsoon level of 5,000 cusecs, reaching 41,900 cusecs.

The students believe that the principal called in the police, who proceeded to baton-charge and injure the protestors.

The customers complained that there were not enough officials to inspect the prices and quality of items.

A project to construct pedestrian bridges on the busy roads of Islamabad is in doldrums.

Tahir said their squabbling had escalated to the point where he decided to kill them.

A cargo truck with donations from Lahore is surrounded by people displaced by the floods in southern Punjab.

Raging floodwaters washed away thousands of tons of oil and chemical stored in the district’s three major oil depots.

Two young men have been killed in a gas explosion at a CNG station in the Punjabi city of Jaranwala.

Students of the QMC in Bahawalpur have begun the fourth day calling for the removal of principal.

Organisation launched a comprehensive pictorial survey of the nine thoroughfares declared model roads.

Security arrangements in GOR-II and III are inadequate, the residents of the localities complained.

The rising cost of textbooks and school materials drives more and more parents to stores selling second-hand books.

officials on Friday night cut a wire being used by the Gujjarpura police station to steal electricity.

Water levels have started to ebb in majority of the flood-hit areas of southern Punjab but problems continue to grow.

At the Alipur Road, it appears like the Red Sea has parted as almost 70 villages are inundated.

Daska City police registered a case against two sub inspectors and an assistant sub inspector for extortion.