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Runway romance: Eloping couple caught by railway officials
Couple appeals for the police to provide them with protection.
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Justice: Student cheated out of grade gets 3rd position
Third position awarded to matric student who had been disqualified by Education Board last month.
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Drug-free capital: It’s business as usual for city’s narcotics dealers
Officials say police too occupied with other tasks to mount an aggressive campaign.
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Fighting extremism: ‘Progressives’ must take a stand
Extremist forces benefiting from progressives’ retreat from public space, says speaker.
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Many Christians miss a ‘tolerant’ Lahore
‘We are scaring our minorities, God will not spare us’, says religious scholar Khalid Zaheer.
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Deaths and diplomacy: Law will take its course, says Sana
Law minister says they will not bow down to any pressure.
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Parliamentary debating competition: Shahjewana 2011 kicks off at UCL
A total of 74 teams are competing for the English title and 34 for Urdu.
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Council of Common Interests: Body to discuss Punjab’s gas shortage
Reduction of overheads also likely to figure on its agenda.
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Free ride: 76 PML-N affiliates costing Rs20m to Punjab govt
Individuals enjoying perks and privileges without making any contribution to government affairs.
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Gender parity: Women officers to learn new crime-fighting techniques
IGP encourages female officers to opt for fields positions.
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Custody dispute: Nine-month old girl returned to mother
Mother says the father had forcibly taken the infant away.
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School health and nutrition supervisors: 1,000 could lose their jobs
No service rules and regulations for supervisors is allowing massive favouritism in hiring, says official.
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Flood aftermath: People move court for Watan Cards
NADRA seeks time to produce relevant information before court.
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Accounts officer ‘demanded bribe to issue salaries’
Eleven teachers of a girls’ school file complaint with accountant general.
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Patrolling police: New recruits go two months without salary
Patrolling police complain of non-payment of salaries for past two months.
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207 relieved personnel re-join police
All officers from abolished Special Intelligence Agency join different police branches.
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Justice delayed, not denied: Land dispute decided after 45 years
Land dispute was first brought before a sessions' court in 1965.
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City’s first waste water plant on its way
Some nervous that high electricity costs may stymie operations.
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‘Budgets must be gender-affirmative’
Conference held on 'Monitoring and Achievements of MDGs - Weakness and Threats of the Existing Budgetary Process'.
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‘Suicide bomber’ may have been kidnapped
Police no closer to identifying youth who carried explosives, his handlers.
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Drama in Lahore: US diplomat faces double murder charge
Official claims to have gunned down two men in self defence.
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Islamabad Fashion Week: Who are you wearing?
The Express Tribune ventures to get a low-down on the budding fashionistas, the motifs and cuts.
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Punjab govt extends supports to abandoned boy
The ten-year-old was left on a road by his parents because they could not afford his treatment.
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Civil servants launch Rs80b counter proposal
PMSA president dismisses govt savings plan as ‘DMG’ brainchild'.
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Worldcall plunges into more losses
The company’s revenue also dropped from Rs8.41 billion to Rs7.46 billion in 2010.
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Children’s festival aims to promote inclusion
The performance was a fast-talking comedy adaptation of the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo’s classic play.
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Monument to Benazir: Plea against use of state funds dismissed
Tax payers’ money should not be spent on memorials.
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Youth tied up in stables by landlord
Police officials raided a buffalo stable where they found Raza tied to a tree.
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A close shave: Landlords shave barber’s head for refusing to visit
Influential landlords’s from Bharwana Chak had asked him to visit their dera but he refused them.
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Losing patience with patients
Nishtar Hospital administration and police reached the scene and questioned eyewitnesses about the incident.
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Contempt of court: Women attack police official in court
Akram was arrested by police on charges of abducting his older brother Shams, torturing him four months ago.
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Majority of companies perform well in 2010
Government consultation with business associations has been poor, especially over the last two years.
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NCA thesis display: Heritage, depression dominant subjects
A total of 164 students have displayed their work throughout the college premises.
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Park and Ride Plaza: Less than half the shops sold
The total revenue generated by the LDA was Rs211.45 million.
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Black Book: New edition contains profiles of 263 criminals
A total of Rs 121.7 million has been fixed as head money by the Punjab government.
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‘Help us restore the IMF loan programme’
Appeal was made to US President Barack Obama’s Senior Adviser David Lipton by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
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Injured: Five ‘in critical condition’
Among the 70 injured who were taken to various hospitals in the city, 25 were discharged.
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Discriminating in death: ‘There were no Shia victims’
Activist of TNRM maintains all blast victims were Sunnis.
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Investigating the blast: Police believe there were three terrorists
The explosives may have been triggered by remote control device.
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Parents abandon sick child on the road
Ten-year-old cancer patient Ameen left on the road by his parents because he was ill.
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Keeping tabs on government officials
Punjab govt initiates special monitoring system targeting govt servants to stop corruption.
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Abandoned at birth: Mother leaves newborn twins in hospital
A woman gave birth to twins in the DHQ hospital and abandoned both babies the same day.
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Reproductive health : Lack of political will to blame for poor indicators
Efforts to implement family planning and promote reproductive health provid lackluster results, says health secretary.
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Fourth daughter: Man chops off his wife’s hands with axe
Musarrat says she has been abused by her husband ever since she gave birth to her fourth daughter.
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Training authority: Recruitment rules, procedures violated
Tevta re-employs seven officials that had been either fired or had retired.
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Higher education: Khosa meets PPLA today
Senior adviser to CM will head govt delegation that will meet Punjab Professors and Lectures Association.
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Lahore Transport Company: Senior citizens, disabled will soon travel for free
Disabled and senior citizens to travel for free on buses.
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Waste management: Private companies to clean up designated areas
Lahore Waste Management Company hands over union councils to private sector companies for efficient management.
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‘Women IDPs discriminated against’
Aurat Foundation says govt and aid organisations should stop discriminating against women.
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FIA security guards replaced
Entire security plan of FIA revamped after security in-charge found to be operative of banned outfit.