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NRO judgment: Petition moved to direct PM to write Swiss letter
Advocate says new premier should learn from predecessor’s ‘mistakes’.
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LUMS holds 24th annual convocation, students advised to ‘dream big’
A total of 713 students of the Class of 2012 graduate.
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Laptop distribution: ‘Expedite distribution among post-graduates’
Students said laptops could help them in their research.
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Teachers worry over low education budget
Demands increase in retirement age, condemns on-campus violence.
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‘Power rioters’: Khanewal police ‘holding people illegally’
100 held from Kamoke ‘without any evidence’ sent on a two-day judicial remand.
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Ending religious discrimination: ‘The tolerant majority needs to take charge’
Participants pass resolution calling for discrimination-free laws.
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Public space: Work on Pak Tea House moves ahead full steam
Renovation to be completed July 7, fast food will be served.
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Supplementary budget: Naulatia slams govt for financial indiscipline
Committee to be formed to look at recent brawls in the house and fix responsibility.
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Gilani’s constituency: NA-151 by-polls on July 19
NA-151 Multan had fallen vacant after Yousaf Raza Gilani's disqualification as the prime minister.
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DHA security guard’s murder: FIA gives clean chit to tycoon
Agency’s report says DHA was found to be beneficiary.
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75% of Changa Manga wiped clean of trees
Report states out of the total area of more than 4,000 acres, as much as 3,000 acres of plantation has become barren.
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Robbery: Protest over police failure to respond
The robbers did not leave the house until an hour later but there was no sign of the police
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Public hospitals: Doctors’ strike continues, talks delayed
Improved allowances, raises in the stipends of house officers, postgraduate trainees and administrative changes.
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Hajj quotas: Ministry told to verify tour operators’ tax payments
Petition against the ministry for not awarding Hajj quotas to new tour operators.
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Offensive language: Women’s Action Forum slams Sheikh Alauddin
Sheikh Allaudin has a history of using derogatory language against women including vulgar filthy gestures, says WAF
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Ranjeet Singh anniversary Sikh pilgrims arrive
173rd death anniversary of Ranjeet Singh, the founder of the Sikh empire centred in Lahore in the 19th Century.
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Historical structures: Restoration of Ranjeet Singh’s baraderi starts
Was destroyed in 1992 in the wake of Babri Mosque demolition in India.
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Exhibition: Work of home economics students displayed at UAF
Stalls set up for dresses, shoes and embroidered items.
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Children’s Library Complex: 2,000 enrolled in summer classes
‘Children are taught to make logical decisions’.
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Lawyers’ convention: Denial of right to attorney condemned
Lawyers say fresh elections necessary for political stability.
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Punjab Assembly: Budget passed amidst escalating clashes
Seemal Kamran and Sheikh Alauddin banned for seven days.
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Petition asks for 50 Nigerians jailed illegally to be released
‘The detained have served their sentence but have not been released’.
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Teacher held for damaging child’s eye
Eye surgeon will examine the child today to ascertain whether or not he can recover vision in the eye.
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CM absent: Turnout poor at PML-N rally against load-shedding
Hamza Shahbaz lashes out at federal govt over ‘discrimination’.
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Shoe-throwing PML-Q MPA passes out on Punjab Assembly premises
Seemal Kamran barred from entering building, men and women MPAs duke it out inside Punjab Assembly.
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Faking It?: 3 women soaked in petrol, set alight
Suspects claimed that the women had set themselves alight to force them to take back the earlier FIR
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Kulfa-maker sued over wedding delivery
Petitioner seeks Rs1.05m in damages for ‘valima humiliation’.
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Black man: Constable beaten up for demanding bribe
Rickshaw driver accuses policeman of harassing him over lack of documents.
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Gaddafi Stadium: Court stops PCB from rebuilding wall
Gulberg TMO says wall built without planning approval on a green belt.
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Wedding stopped over artificial jewellery
Panchayat to try to resolve dispute between families.
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Punjab Assembly: Demands of grants passed after opposition’s walkout
MPAs from both sides throw shoes at each other; MPA Muhammad Yar Hiraj demands security against power rioters.
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Excise and Taxation: New vehicle registration books to be issued from July
New security features being introduced to stop fake transfers, says secy.
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Hospital strike: Doctors will give up strike for Rs6b package
Seek long-term changes to service structure costing total Rs32 billion.
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Moral policing: Cigarettes not a concern for anti-smoking campaign
Is concern about public health the real motive for the ban on sheesha?
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Court paves way for revival of Pak Tea House
Pak Tea House was a place that used to be frequented by intellectuals, poets and writers.
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Female MPAs throw shoes at belligerent Sheikh Alauddin
PML-Q MPA throws shoe at Unification bloc member after he passes vulgar remarks against women members of the house.
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Three killed as power riots rage on across Punjab
Victims allegedly killed by guards of NA Human Rights Committee chairman.
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Opposition celebrates PM’s disqualification
Workers from the PTI, the PML-N and lawyers offered prayers in front of the Prime Minister’s Camp in Multan.
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Orient labs: 12 attorneys appear for victims’ families
June 20 fixed for arguments on post arrest bail petition of Zafar Iqbal.
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Crime against women: Two killed, one injured ‘by family’
FIR in murder states money to be the cause, neighbours suspect honour killing.
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Computer stolen from Prosecution Dept
Police, prosecution department conducting inquiries.
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Development project: 256 women get goats from Turkish agency
Agency vows to support more poverty alleviation projects in Pakistan.
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Theatre performance: Meri Lado — a comment on dowry tradition
Highlights suffering of brides’ families in paying for dowry.
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Revenue: 3,000 commercial buildings served notices
City govt targets Rs200m in fees as LDA recovers record Rs2.17b over last year.
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Graduating batch: LUMS gears up to host its largest convocation
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy to be key note speaker.
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Public patience snaps: Rioters run amok in Punjab & K-P
Irate protesters block roads, damage public & private property in different towns and cities.
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FIA, NAB and police to probe Malik Riaz saga
Three member-joint investigation team to probe chief justice’s, tycoon’s families.
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Invention to Innovation Summit-2012 held at Punjab University
‘Policies should be made in the national interest’.
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Murder case: Absent Shan Khusro’s bail plea dismissed
Petitioner could not turn up for hearing ‘because of threat to life’.
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Media workshop: Educate police, court staff to curb torture
Pakistan is a signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture but has yet to take measures to discourage the practice