Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif opted to visit Gujrat to see a boy whose arms were severed by a landlord instead of appearing in front of Judicial Tribunal to record his statement regarding the Lahore Model Town tragedy. One member Judicial Tribunal has extended the deadline by one day. According to reports in media, […]
Officials in the violence-hit Bhakkar district in Punjab say that the area is calm following the Friday’s sectarian clashes which claimed 12 lives. The situation worsen after gunmen fired at the funeral of a local religious Ghulam Muhammad. The District Coordination Officer (DCO) Bhakkar said curfew has not been clamped on the tension-hit areas‚ […]
Three people were killed and 15 injured in an explosion in a compartment of Shalimar Express at Chatiana Railway Station near Toba Tek Singh Monday afternoon. The train was going from Lahore to Karachi. Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has condemned the blast. The injured were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Toba Tek Singh. The […]
The Council of Common Interests at its meeting in Islamabad Wednesday approved the new National Energy Policy. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The energy policy focuses on exploitation of cheap sources of energy including coal‚ hydel‚ solar and wind to overcome the electricity shortage. The policy envisages production of seven […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Tuesday said his party has only the capability to build a new Pakistan, adding that the youth would prove their capabilities in the next general elections. Addressing a public rally in Lodhran, a district of Punjab province, the cricketer-turned-politician said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership should change […]
Dec 11 2012 | Posted in
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Tragic news is not asymmetrical news in Pakistan. If any day Taliban bless on the nation and don’t kill anyone across the country, traffic mishap or target killing or other manmade incidents complete the counting. In the latest incident, at least 16 people have died after drinking a toxic cough syrup in Lahore, the […]
Nov 26 2012 | Posted in
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A court on Tuesday framed indictment charges against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s son-in-law Ali Imran, who was implicated in a case regarding the torture of an employee at a bakery in Lahore. The magistrate, while indicting Ali Imran and others, summoned the witnesses on November 30. The case was heard in Judicial Magistrate […]
Nov 20 2012 | Posted in
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In what appeared to be another incident of targeted killing, unknown motorcycle riders gunned down a senior lawyer Shakir Ali Rizvi on Friday in Lahore. Shakir Ali Rizvi advocate accompanied by his associate lawyer came out of his chamber for going to the court in regard to a case and as soon as his car […]
In a bid to level the field for the upcoming elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has announced that he would expose the leadership of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Talking to the media, he said that it was the Sharif family which had escaped to Saudi Arabia after signing a deal with former […]
Aug 27 2012 | Posted in
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The electricity crisis is not a new phenomenon in the country but the nation is being fed up with false promises of the government, ineptness of the bureaucracy, power outages of about 16 to 22 hours and the rising cost of energy. People, whether live in rural or urban areas, resorted to protests, mostly violent […]
Extending his support to the judiciary, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was the last hope for the supremacy of law and justice in the country. While speaking to a gathering at Jamia Naeemia in Lahore, he said that all segments of the society played their due role in […]
Jun 11 2012 | Posted in
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In what appeared to be a shocking state of affairs, a sixth grade student committed suicide after he was allegedly abused by his teacher at a government school in Faisalabad. Eleven-year-old Muhammad Umar, a student of the MC High School Yaseen Abad, burnt himself to death after he was reportedly tortured at the hands of […]
May 19 2012 | Posted in
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