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Scarred and silent, ‘missing’ dentist returns home
Dr Abdul Qayyum was allegedly detained for links to banned outfit.
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City infrastructure: Flyover workers get Rs2 million bonus
Chief minister says Bus Rapid Transit System will be completed this year.
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Lahore Fort: Restricted access the price of public vandalism
Visitors able to see less and less of historic buildings thanks to scribblers and carvers.
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Medical education: UHS team inspects Ameeruddin College
Inspectors assess facilities for college’s affiliation with UHS.
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Consumer Court: Shoe shop manager issued notice
Petitioner pleads for Rs50,000 damages for “mental agony” for shoes worth Rs1000.
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Step up: KEMU to start own dental college from next year
De Montmorency College students will need to go elsewhere for classes.
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Prisoner shanked in judicial lockup
Friend of murder accused thrashed by complainant’s friends.
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Pollution watch: Air quality monitors still out of order
With machines busted, no mechanism in place to measure emissions of pollutants.
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‘Knowledge Economy’: Government signs agreements with IT companies
Microsoft, Cisco, Hawaway, Oracle, Teradata and Transworld agree to help students.
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Police Orders: ‘Shops, businesses must be guarded’
CCPO says it is necessary to set up CCTV cameras and deploy guards at the city’s commercial centres.
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TMAs directed to lay trunk sewers
Two sewerage inlets from Nawabpura society flow into the canal.
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Corporal punishment: ‘Religious seminaries are the worst violators’
‘Beating up children should be made a criminal offence’.
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Violence at BZU: 51 students remanded for two days
26 students of rival group released on bail.
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Law and order: Saddar residents protest land-grab
Accuse police of supporting illegal occupation of a residential plot.
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Seminar: ‘Promote self employment to end joblessness’
‘Most successful businessmen started with modest means, bright ideas’.
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Traitor?: Khosa lashes out at estranged Awan
Rivalry between Khosa, Awan heightens after office of Punjab governor was vacated after Salmaan Taseer’s murder.
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Forces acting against 5th friendly budget: PM
Gilani says PML-N is afraid of the upcoming ‘friendly’ budget.
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PM contempt: LHC requested to restrain Gilani from holding office
Petitions filed in Lahore High Court seek explanation from Gilani for holding office after being convicted.
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Latif Khosa, Chaudhry Shujaat hit back at Nawaz Sharif
Punjab governor, PML-Q leader speak in favour of Gilani, criticise Sharif.
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Third arm of baby successfully removed
Baby girl was born in Taunsa Sharif on Monday with an extra arm joined to her back.
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Defence secy issued notice in contempt plea
Former airport security officer says apex court’s order not followed.
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Seminary disappearance: Police admonished in abducted girl case
Court asks police to produce seminary head in court.
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Illegal detention: Judge dismisses plea against police, but smells mischief
Tells police to keep arrest record at both the post and the police station.
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Unpaid bills: Sugar mills accused of threatening creditors
Farmers say they were detained at the mills, rescued later by police.
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Green bench: No proceedings on first Green Day
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah was on leave on Friday.
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Adapting time: From extreme weather to being ‘encouraged’ to convert
Foreign students at Punjab University share their experiences.
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Unhappy workers: Services suspended for hours at Gymkhana
‘400 members turned away’.
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Contempt of court petition: LHC asks Nargis Sethi to submit reply
The petitioner states that SC’s order regarding his reinstatement was not implemented.
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Red Crescent: Chairman defends appointment of Punjab chief
Petitioners contended that the governor had appointed members for political reasons.
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Urdu literature: A hundred years of Manto
Conference on Naya Urdu Afsana to mark the 100th birth anniversary of writer Saadat Hasan Manto.
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Fatal accident: MPA spared prosecution
PML-N MPA Sher Ali Gorchani’s car hit a motorcycle where three people were also injured.
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‘Child rapists’ still on the loose
Mother had been at a mehfil-e-milad when her child left home to visit her but she was was abducted on the way.
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Madhyana trial: Stay order on final verdict extended
Former MPA’s lawyer says he was accused due to old grudge.
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‘Everyone, including America, has burnt their fingers in Afghanistan’
Riaz Mohammad Khan promotes his book at Oxford University Press.
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Experts call for agriculture development policy
‘New cotton variety developed at IUB can be useful in arid regions’.
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Assault, humiliation: Case against shopkeeper for beating former worker
Theft case against worker terminated by police for lack of evidence, says he was ‘paraded on a donkey’.
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Art exhibition: Women and the Walled City
None of the 11 artists present at show opening.
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Education & enrollment: ‘We need to ensure teachers actually go to the classes’
Policy dialogue looks at how children can be retained in school.
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PML-N narrowly loses Multan by-election
Victory secured by margin of four hundred votes.
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PP-194 seat: PPP’s Usman Bhatti squeezes in a win by 400 votes
Bhatti had secured 20,416 votes in by-election for PP-194 constituency in Multan.
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Two lion cubs die in Lahore Safari Park
The park’s administration said that the cubs, who were just a week old, were in bad health condition since birth.
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Back-to-back incidents: Tragedy averted as 13kg bomb on train defused
The bomb found in Attock is similar to the one detonated in Lahore.
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Predicting SC verdict: Astrologist claims prime minister is safe
MM Hussain says regardless of the verdict, PM is unlikely to face punishment.
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Stranded at school: Drivers strike due to non-payment of wages
Drivers said they were facing hardship as the school had not paid their dues for three months.
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Petition adjourned: LHC chief justice asks govt for local polls plans
Petitioner’s lawyer argued Punjab government was delaying local elections and this was a violation of the Constitution
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Unesco to monitor conservation work
UNESCO to assess whether Lahore Fort, Shalamar Gardens can be removed from its list of endangered world heritage sites
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Railway station blast: PTI cancels anniversary celebrations
Kasuri says Punjab and federal govts should resign over security failures.
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Weak structures: Century-old building collapses, five injured
The building, constructed by Chaudhary Baghwan Das in 1904, was being used by a newspaper agency.
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Reporting fairly: Responsibility of media scrutinised
‘Media ethics compromised because of race to be first to deliver news’.
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Industrial survey: 30 factories issued relocation notices so far
Nine teams conduct painstaking survey in residential areas.