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Earth Day: Civil society plants 100,000 trees
Trees were planted in 38 cities of the country by stakeholders.
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Love For Books: National Book Day celebrated at UAF
Chairman Nadeemul Haq reiterated the need to adopt regular reading habits.
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Economics seminar: ‘10 per cent of GDP should be invested in research’
Dr Haque lists construction, hotel management as promising industries.
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‘Unlawful detention’: Man claims torture by sub inspector
Attending doctor notes internal injuries from severe beating.
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Face of Climate Change: Expert paints bleak picture at Earth Day seminar
Lack of political will and administrative hurdles blamed for fast decline.
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Dual anger: Tax officer roughed up by lawyers
Squabble started over tax refund.
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Convoys turned rallies: Notices issued for code of conduct violations
Mujhtaba Shujahur Rehman to be served notice soon.
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High-handedness: Two cops held for misbehaving with couple
The policemen demanded a Rs10,000 bribe from Ijaz and threatened to register a case again him if he did not pay.
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Wasa, World bank: Water supply and sewerage project to be launched
World Bank team is expected to visit Faisalabad to ascertain the feasibility of the project, says Aziz.
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Fake encounter: Family protest against delay in arrest of 30 suspects
Protesters demanded immediate arrest of the accused, including 24 policemen.
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Police encounter: Three killed, two arrested
Police said the gang had been operating under an ASI.
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Jubilation firing: Bridegroom, his kin arrested
A guest had shot in the air, injuring one of the groom’s cousins on Saturday.
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Promote artists: DHA gets new art gallery
Management aims to provide young artists a platform, showcase veterans’ work.
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65-year-old ‘sexually assaulted’, thrown acid at
Police register case against quack after family protest.
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Global Action Week: ‘Every child needs a trained teacher’
Campaign kicks off to demand professional growth for teachers.
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Pushing the deadline: 11 more roads need to convert to LED lighting
The two month deadline has passed and officials say the work will be finished ‘soon’.
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Poll fight: PTI to win May 11 elections says Kasuri
PTI will not let the corrupt flee the country, says Kasuri.
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Let’s vaccinate: ‘Adults too can contract measles’
Disease highly contagious though completely preventable.
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Ahmadis still out of electoral process
The registration form requires them to identify themselves.
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Heinous Crime: Man arrested for raping daughter
She said her father forgot to lock the room one day, so she escaped and went to the nearest police station.
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Election Security: Former MPA survives shooting, supporter killed
Sial was campaigning in the rural area of Rang Pur in Muzaffargarh district, when he was attacked.
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Water Destruction: Canal breach inundates farms, houses
The breach occurred in the morning. Wheat and sugarcane crops were affected.
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War On Terror: Soldier buried
Brigadier Ashraf Ali laid a floral wreath on the grave of Rizwan Ali.
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Cantonment Board: Parks and streets renovated over the last 6 months
Rs147.199 million in taxes recovered against a target of Rs231.587 million in six months.
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Political crime: Jail the place for Musharraf, says Sana
Former law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan says PML-N would win the upcoming elections.
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Farmers’ Day: Agricultural mechanisation the need of the hour
Speakers laud UAF’s efforts to bring about a farm mechanisation revolution.
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Syndicate decision: Generating funds for Punjab University
Committees formed to deal with charges against faculty.
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Public health: ‘Nobody should lose their child to preventable disease’
Jinnah Hospital doctor says high dependency units lack facilities.
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Architectural nostalgia: Ajaz Anwar recreates Old Lahore in water colour
The exhibit showcases 10 large water colour paintings completed over two years.
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Aangan Terrha in Lahore till April 28
‘All but two nights already sold out’.
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Eating out: Gowalmandi Food Street to re-open in 10 days
‘No official notification will be issued but street will be dealt with as a food street’.
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Measles Update: 2-year old dies, 110 more admitted to hospitals
Water and Sanitation Agency was direction to take steps to repair the broken sewage pipes at Rasool Park.
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‘Sweets’ turn sour: Two returning officer staff arrested on corruption charges
‘The candidates gave us money for sweets over acceptance of papers’.
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Cases registered against nine cops
The police men, the complainant said, broke the door of his nephew’s room and rummaged through the cupboards.
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Fatal accident: Nine killed, 50 injured as bus overturns
5 critical, a woman suffers burn injuries.
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Adulteration: Spurious juice, bottled water units raided
One arrested; four children, forced into labour, recovered.
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Gang leader arrested for forging motorbike registration documents
The CPO said the police had recovered 14 stolen bikes on a tip-off.
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11 monitoring cell judges replaced
Only 29 districts were found to have achieved the target of clearing the backlog of cases filed up to 2008.
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Stop Measles Week: NGOs to help local govt curb the disease
Events including walks and seminars will kick off on April 24.
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Lecture series: ‘I imagined the world on the other side of mountains’
Nazir Sabir speaks about his passion: mountain climbing.
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‘Former PU communication studies director may get terminated’
Three points against Naz to be discussed in the syndicate meeting today.
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LHC allows Chaudhry Wajahat to run for elections
Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain will contest on the NA-104 seat in Jallalpur Jattan-Karianwala.
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Windscreen of Nawaz Sharif’s aircraft cracks mid-air
Plane diverted towards Lahore, Nawaz safely off-boarded.
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It’s official: PML-N goes solo in Punjab
Party unveils its list of candidates; will also field its man against PML-F in Muzaffargarh.
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Hygiene Matters: 3 bakeries, one soda water factory sealed
The factory was sealed at Chowk Nakhuda after it was found to be operating without a water filtration plant.
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Baisakhi 2013: Number of Indian yatris falls by 60%
ETPB says most of the people had waited till the last minute to apply for visas.
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Election code of conduct: 504 complaints disposed of
Most of the complaints were related to hoardings, flags and oversized banners.
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Lesco Bills: NAB restrained by court
The bench issued a stay order and sought reply from the bureau by April 24.
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Drone Strikes: ‘Court should appoint an amicus curie’
Saeed is seeking ‘an end to the drone strikes’ on Pakistani soil.
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Battling pollution: Services Hospital work with WWF-Pakistan as past of Earth Day
50,000 trees to reduce environment degradation.