Punjab

A World Bank team held a meeting with the Punjab University vice-chancellor and other senior faculty members.

Arrangements have been made to provide foolproof security at the PP-13 by-elections to be held on Wednesday.

Four people including two women were killed early Tuesday morning by repeated assaults over a family feud.

Three people Mian Jalil, Athar and Mazhar had allegedly beaten a 13-year-old boy after accusing him of theft.

Police and Rescue 1122 have reportedly blamed each other for the lynching of two brothers in Sialkot.

The 2 cities are being provided contaminated water from the Rawal Dam but no remedial measure has been taken so far.

The acute shortage of relief items has been observed in areas located in the south of Muzaffargarh.

Floodwater, ruined crops and rubble greet those returning back to Daira Din Panah.

The judge directed the law officers to explain why local administrators were operating when their tenure had lapsed.

The Punjab government has abolished six of its task forces because they became a drain on public finances.

Poudel came to Lahore to attend the one-day South Asian conference on Role of Women in South Asian Movements.

Questions raised about bureaucrats not having same eagerness to serve the public that people’s representatives did.

Holding bits of bread flood affectees raised slogans against the administration for not supplying them with food.

An affected patient told The Express Tribune that he had been waiting for two hours for protests to end.

The explosion occurred while the oil tanker was being welded in a workshop near GST Chowk in Faisalabad.

Given the escalating trust deficit between the people and the government, the floods pose a challenge for us all.

4,637 out of these were found safe, while, 2,364 were found adulterated and unfit for consumption.

Flood victims continue to face problems as relief goods have not yet reached several localities.

Public transport ploughing through the twin cities are not nearly enough to meet the growing demands of the people.

Prof Malik stressed the need for changing the question paper patterns to avoid stereotyping.

The water flow in the Ravi has surged from its pre-monsoon level of 5,000 cusecs, reaching 41,900 cusecs.

The students believe that the principal called in the police, who proceeded to baton-charge and injure the protestors.

The customers complained that there were not enough officials to inspect the prices and quality of items.

A project to construct pedestrian bridges on the busy roads of Islamabad is in doldrums.

Tahir said their squabbling had escalated to the point where he decided to kill them.

A cargo truck with donations from Lahore is surrounded by people displaced by the floods in southern Punjab.

Raging floodwaters washed away thousands of tons of oil and chemical stored in the district’s three major oil depots.

Two young men have been killed in a gas explosion at a CNG station in the Punjabi city of Jaranwala.

Students of the QMC in Bahawalpur have begun the fourth day calling for the removal of principal.

Organisation launched a comprehensive pictorial survey of the nine thoroughfares declared model roads.

Security arrangements in GOR-II and III are inadequate, the residents of the localities complained.

The rising cost of textbooks and school materials drives more and more parents to stores selling second-hand books.

officials on Friday night cut a wire being used by the Gujjarpura police station to steal electricity.

Water levels have started to ebb in majority of the flood-hit areas of southern Punjab but problems continue to grow.

At the Alipur Road, it appears like the Red Sea has parted as almost 70 villages are inundated.

Daska City police registered a case against two sub inspectors and an assistant sub inspector for extortion.

Pepco has frozen all development work and will instead be focusing on energising the flood-stricken areas.

Employees continued their strike in protest against the lack of increments and allowances by the PTCL management.

In Sialkot, where two teenage boys were beaten to death – to settle an enmity – people simply watched.

Head of the inquiry committee, Kazim Ali Shah says fleeing of SHO not to impact investigations.

Pakistan Army Engineers restored 31-metre long bridge at Sanawan-Karam Dad Qureshi Mor to provide access to traffic.

They said that they had raised prices because of a decline in supply owing to the floods.

LHC allowed the government to use Baba Ground as a parking lot for Civil Secretariat.

LHC constituted a 15-member committee to find a solution to traffic and encroachment problems on Turner Road.

Six people, including a lawyer and his brother, were killed in Ludhar village of Lahore.

Asif Hussain and his three friends have travelled across Muzaffargarh to provide relief goods to the trapped people.

The relatives of a youth were beaten up by nearly 300 of his wife’s relatives who locked them out of their houses.

Nearly 20 per cent of the livestock in Pakistan has been washed away in the worst ever floods.

“To boys, girls are like tissue paper to be used once and then thrown away.”

Shahbaz Sharif said that he will not rest until the houses of the flood affected people are reconstructed.