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Price lists: Market committee warned over distribution delay
Shopkeepers fined for not displaying price lists, using uncertified weights.
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Death during YDA strike: Child’s autopsy report reveals natural death
PMA demands govt cancel murder case against four doctors.
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Gender-based crime: Three murder suspects stopped from leaving town
They are accused of killing a woman by setting her on fire, she died after remaining hospitalised for 11 days.
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Proposals: Nurses protest demolition of hostel for construction of college
Say they were told to shift to private hostels meant for male workers.
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Unemployed experts: Agricultural graduates stopping lease payment
‘16 of 108 who received plots in 2010 have stopped payment, more are considering boycotting the programme’.
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Ramazan offerings: Low turnout of customers at Fort Road Food Street
Managers hope for things to change in a week’s time.
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Death row prisoners in Punjab jails prove troublesome
Punjab government urges federal government to decide prisoners' fate to avoid any untoward incidents.
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Cholistan in need of urgent water supplies
The area’s water woes can be traced to mismanagement, negligence on the part of govt.
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Development: Sharif announces grant for Chakwal Press Club
CM also directed the district president to set up a PML-N secretariat in Chakwal city.
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Man appeals to CM for help in finding missing son
Muhammad Farooq, missing for six years, was ‘sold’ along with his taxi in FATA.
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Freewill: Love-marriage-couple say police harassing them
Call kidnapping case registered against the man ‘baseless’.
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Gender-based crime: Assault case against 6, including 3 cops
Policemen are also accused of unfairly acquitting four men of sexual assault charges.
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Medical education: King Edward Medical University alumni object to new merit rule
University to select 76 candidates from 228 after interviews on Monday.
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Service structure: General cadre doctors demand promotions first
Association also seeks updated seniority list, greater number of senior jobs.
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Irrigation system: ‘This system will leave Punjab indebted’
Speakers say Indus Water Treaty is a ‘unique’ sharing arrangement.
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MQM will strive to make South Punjab a reality: Farooq Sattar
Certain elements are afraid of the MQM’s popularity in Punjab, says Sattar.
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Third death from rash driving in two days
Young biker killed after being hit by a van overtaking him.
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Digital electricity meters: Consumers confounded by new meters
Claim they don’t know how to read them; IESCO says all relevant information on back of bills.
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2012 monsoon season: Punjab under threat of being submerged
104 river dykes meant to hold back floodwater are in dilapidated condition following 2010 floods.
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New contempt law: PPP, PBC agree to revisit three clauses
Lawyers’ body has filed a petition in the SC suggesting the agreed changes.
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‘Stoning’ claims untrue: Husband confesses to strangling wife
Says land owners earlier accused of the murder are innocent.
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Shutdown: Loom workers’ protest continues
The looms had been closed by owners over workers’ demand for a wage raise.
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‘Black Day’: Bars call Monday strike against contempt law
Lawyers across the province would go on a full day strike on Monday, July 23.
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1,000 policemen for Faisalabad mosques
Security arranged for Ramazan Bazaars, railway stations, bus stands.
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Science cooperation: US-funded statistics lab opens at UVAS
US allocated $350,000 for research projects in Pakistan this year.
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Medical regulation: No progress in probe of death in unauthorised surgery
Police have detained husband of the suspect for a week without presenting him before a court.
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First rain: Rain water bothers city folks, pleases desert people
‘Water drained from three underpasses by sunset’.
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Vigilante justice: Two prisoners shot on way to courtroom
One dead, other critical; son of murder victim arrested for shooting.
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Sacred waters: Katasraj lake being rehabilitated
Water level rises after three pumping stations are demolished.
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Independent police force proposed for Ring Road
Force to be modelled on the National Highway and Motorway Police.
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Service structure: YDA announces protests at public hospitals from 26th
Patient care will not be interrupted at any wards, says YDA.
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Crops damaged in Chachran Sharif
Katcha area residents say no plans to relocate.
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Torture allegations: Police have ‘yet to receive orders’
Sessions court had directed the police two days ago to prosecute an ASI, four others for torturing a man.
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Rs5.6b development budget for Faisalabad
FDA budget amounted to Rs16.76 billion, of which Rs11.159 billion was non-development expenditure
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Ramazan: City eateries offer Sehr, Iftar deals to attract customers
Iftar packages on offer are between Rs700 to Rs1,700.
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Ring Road authority told to generate its own resources
Work on Ring Road’s southern loop to start soon.
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Flickr exhibition: Amateur photographers get extended run
107 pictures by 22 photographers on display till July 22.
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Right and wrong: New contempt law can lead to anarchy, says Asma Jahangir
‘Courts also need to exercise restraint in issuing contempt notices’.
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Doctors’ jobs: YDA directed to submit service structure proposals
Government says accepting all of doctors’ demands would open a Pandora’s box.
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Scandal: FIA to probe purchase of transformers made from scrap
PEPCO annually spends over Rs25 billion to buy transformers.
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Postmaster booked in Rs2m scam
Accused pocketed cash deposited by people in Post Office saving accounts.
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Police report: Sensitive NATO routes in Punjab identified
Police asked to be extra mindful of security since there has been a history of attacks.
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Christians hold demo: Pindi MNA accused of grabbing church, hospital land
BB Road blocked for three hours; Malik Abrar Ahmed denies charges, makes counter allegations.
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Accountant general’s office: Employees accuse senior officials of union leader’s murder
Block The Mall for 2 hours to force police to register case against AG.
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Protester faces public nuisance charges
He had burnt his motorcycle and furniture in protests at Governor’s House.
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Successful polio campaign: Train vaccinators, address the public’s concerns, says LHC
Justice Bandial disposes of petitions challenging efficacy of polio vaccine.
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‘Govt schemes impeding provision of free education’
Politicians consulted on how to implement Article 25-A.
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Urbanisation woes: Farmers protest establishment of housing colony in Gujranwala
Say livelihoods of thousands of people associated with land selected for GDA City.
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Fatal encounter: Proclaimed offender killed ‘in shootout’
A witness says the suspect was brought to the scene in a police van and killed.
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Punjab Assembly committee to take up complaint against Chinoy
Standing committee to take up matter as first case.