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Return policy: Father and son killed over Rs 2,000
Two pirs shot Ghulam and his son when they asked for their money back.
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Learning exercises: Local schools without teachers
Boy’s and girl’s schools closed for 6 months after transfer of teachers.
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Dengue Brigade: City gets 20 emergency vehicles for spray
As many as 261 people were diagnosed with dengue fever in the province in the last 24 hours.
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Ayesha Malik ‘slapped, punched and beaten’
Medical report identifies nine injuries caused to PML-Q leader Malik Ahad's daughter by wooden stick.
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Rafi Peer Youth Festival: Students pay tribute to Nazia Hassan
UET stages play about drought, UVAS performs Heer Ranjha spin-off.
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Egg Day: Pakistanis eat 67 eggs a year each
Eggs are important element of a healthy diet: seminar.
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Lost and found: 5,000 court files found in staffers’ homes
District and sessions judge orders raids, inquiry underway.
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LHC dismisses challenge to DHA graveyards policy
Restrictions on burial of non-residents, renters to remain in place.
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Gang rape & murder: Police refuse to arrest 18-year-old’s ‘killers’
Pparents said police wouldn’t arrest the four nominated suspects because of their political connections.
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India-Pakistan issues: Forget Kashmir, terrorism. Worry about water
Water scarcity, Indus treaty discussed at LUMS seminar.
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Anti-climax: Punjab Assembly sitting lasts 30 minutes
137 opposition members signed requisition, 70 showed up.
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Dengue death toll rises to 225 with 6 new deaths
210 victims are from Lahore alone.
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Land scam: Real estate tycoon, aides may see names on ECL
Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz and son have gone underground after being accused in a major land fraud.
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Hafiz Saeed’s petition: LHC rejects report on US drone strikes
Foreign ministry asked to file a ‘logical satisfactory, and comprehensive’ report.
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Dubious deals: Punjab govt averse to prosecute fraud-tainted officials
Fifteen senior officials allegedly caused losses of over Rs15m .
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Entry Test Challenge: Centre, Punjab to file replies by 20th
The bench directed a deputy attorney general and the Punjab advocate general to file replies by October 20.
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New Anarkali Police: Man released from illegal detention
Arrested in possession of 50 liquor bottles, case registered in the daily diary in pencil.
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Yellow Cab Scheme: Court orders meters in all taxis
“the fate of this yellow cab scheme will be no different than the previous one in 1992”, LHC judge.
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Man injured by shaving blade during captivity
Family alleges police protecting criminal who attacked him.
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Police chief demands record of rented places
Police have no central database to share information, say other officers.
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Govt urged to register home-based workers at UCs
Meeting of labour groups urges govt to implement new policy.
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Taseer estate: Amna seeks transfer of all cases to one court
Suits filed by ‘second widow’, three children pending in civil courts.
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Police went ‘out of their way’ to charge Ayesha Malik
LHC confirms bail, says case will be decided on merit.
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Powerless: School without electricity since cable theft six month ago
Police have registered an FIR on Oct 5, SDO Office decline comment.
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Justice systems: Court summons panchayat that ordered wani
Man agrees to give two minor daughters, signs Rs1.5 million note for marrying woman without her family’s approval.
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Rafi Peer Youth Festival: Contrasting plays raise performance level on Day 3
NCA comedy and UCP play hailed as best shows at festival so far.
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Pat on the back: Cabinet hails CM for dengue ‘success’
Punjab govt to seek six-month extension in local election schedule deadline.
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PML-N's Khizar Khagga in pole position to win Sahiwal by-election
Khagga got 40,185 votes while PML-Q and PPP joint candidate Muzzaffar Shah came in second with under 21,000 votes.
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Dengue: Eight more dead, 270 new cases registered in Lahore
Total number of patients has now crossed 16,000 in Punjab, more than 13,700 patients belong to Lahore.
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World Sight Day: Giving the blind a chance to see
Experts feel Pakistan lags behind in motivating people to donate their eyes.
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Energy crisis: Punjab rejects two weekly holidays
Chief Minister says he was not consulted by the cabinet, K-P govt also reportedly unsure.
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Stolen Oil: Police recover NATO oil tanker
tanker contained oil costing Rs6.5 million which was removed so that the empty tanker could be parked near Chiniot.
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Unpaid Salaries: Railways given five days to pay legal advisors
LHC gave five days to Pakistan Railways to ensure payment of salaries to 60 legal advisors of the organisation.
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Punjab Assembly: Session convened to discuss dengue outbreak
PPP would move court against any attempt by the PML-N to dissolve the Punjab Assembly, says PPP leader Basra.
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Suspect’s rights: NAB, FIA suspects have right to lawyer too
Provincial government’s reply on plea against torture still awaited.
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Student torture: No broken bones, no case
First grader brutally beaten for forgetting to bring her slate to class.
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200 homes handed over to flood-hit families
Caritas Austria, Faces Pakistan building 600 houses in Kashmore.
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Outlaws and in-laws: Mother gets custody of four kids
In-laws had been trying to get her to sign over her children’s inheritance to them after her husband’s death.
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Dengue: Shahbaz proposes ‘environment police’
Force would ensure that dengue control measures are kept in place.
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Rafi Peer Youth Festival: Rowdy crowd, ham actors distract from stage
One-man show, documentaries, play and puppet show on Day Two.
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City administration: Revenue dips as town staff busy with dengue
Consumed by special campaigns, towns fall behind on collection targets.
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Public transport: Defence gets shuttle service
AC buses to cover Phases 1-5, run from 6am to 10pm.
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Father, son gunned down in Faisalabad
Accused falsely informed police that victims had arrived to rob their house.
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Dengue: 4 dead, 214 new cases reported in Lahore
Official figures put the death toll at 204 in Punjab, 182 have been reported from Lahore.
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Punjab Assembly: PPP, PML-Q submit privilege notice against ‘unification bloc’
‘In 64 years no one has submitted such a motion against elected members of any assembly’.
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‘Alarming’ situation: ‘Likeminded’ lashes out at Sharif over dengue
Calls for judicial inquiry over dengue deaths.
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Money and malfeasance: LHC asks politicians to file foreign assets details
Issues notices to President Zardari, PM Gilani, PML-N chief Nawaz, PTI chief Imran Khan.
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Improving Ties: Indian journalists visit Punjab Assembly
Khan was addressing a delegation of journalists from Chandigarh.
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Student Murder: Headmaster sacked for neglecting school
Alleged negligence in a murder incident involving a tenth grade student three days ago.
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Thursday meeting: Cabinet to discuss PPSC appointments
Legislation on Ghazi University, Public Defender Service to be approved.