Punjab govt ordered to reinstate law officers
LAHORE THE Lahore High Court on Thursday ordered the Punjab Law Department to reinstate remaining law officers who were removed by caretaker govern...

Hottest May day in Lahore after 59 years
LAHORE The furious sun unleashed hell on Lahorites on Thursday, breaking 59-year-old record of 47 degrees Celsius in May when the City braved its ...

School summer vacation from June 1
LAHORE Punjab Schools Education Department has announced summer vacations in all schools (government/private) of Punjab from the first of June to A...

Imran calls parliamentary meeting tomorrow
LAHORE PAKISTAN Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has convened a meeting of the parliamentary party tomorrow (Saturday). The PTI Chairman is e...

Shahbaz says he canvassed against doctors advice
LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister-Designate Shahbaz Sharif said Thursday that future of the country was bright and those who were spreading pessimism w...

Zardaris promotional diplomacy at work
LAHORE President Zardari is the lone survivor in the wild jungle of PPP politics and his instincts guide him best to avail the last good chance for...

Future doctors resolve to revive true spirit of profession
LAHORE Future doctors, participating in a training workshop, on Thursday expressed their resolve to revive the true spirit of medicine, creating a...

461 road accidents reported
LAHORE AROUND 461 road accidents were reported in Rescue 1122 s Provincial Monitoring Cell from all 36 districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours...

Shahbazs nomination lauded
LAHORE PML-N MPA Atta Maneka has appreciated the decision of PML-N President Nawaz Sharif of nominating Shahbaz Sharif as the next Punjab chief min...

Poetry recital
LAHORE THE Ghazali Education Trust (GET) organised a Mehfil-e-Mushaira titled ‘An Evening with Anwer Masood and Khalid Masood at its head office. ...

Youngster dies in accident
LAHORE A 16-year-old youth was killed by a speeding car in the Gulberg area on Thursday. The youngster, yet to be identified, was crossing a roa...

JI chief stresses strong ties with China
LAHORE JAMAAT-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan while welcoming Chinese Premier Li Keqiang s visit to Pakistan and his address to the Senate has st...

Mini-budget illegal, says Kaira
LAHORE PPP Secretary Information Qamar Zaman Kaira has criticised the caretaker government for introducing a ‘mini-budget of Rs 152 billion and te...

Nawaz has learnt a lot during exile: Chandio
RAWALPINDI Senior PPP leader Maula Bukhsh Chandio has said that PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has learnt a lot from his exile and hardships. That ex...

Capital Talk on Tuesday
RAWALPINDI Secretary Information Awami National Party (ANP) Zahid Khan has said that being Chairman of Water and Power Committee, I know well that ...

Call for policy to cater to health needs of the old
LAHORE Punjab Caretaker Health Minister Saleema Hashmi has stressed the need for formulation of a consolidated policy at provincial and national le...

UHS course
LAHORE UNIVERSITY of Health Sciences (UHS) has launched an international certificate emergency medical technician (EMT) course for ambulance staff ...

Parliament to see weak, divided opposition
KARACHI Kamran Khan, the host of Geo News programme “Aaj Kamran Khan Kay Sath” said on Tuesday that all are waiting to see how opposition is formed...

France always supported democracy in Pakistan: envoy
LAHORE French Ambassador to Pakistan Philippe Thiebaud on Thursday said that France had always supported the democratic process in Pakistan and the...

Five cotton, four rice varieties approved
LAHORE THE Punjab Seed Council has approved five non-BT cotton and four new rice varieties for general cultivation in Punjab. The approval was ...

LHC issues notices on plea against Altaf
LAHORE THE Lahore High Court on Thursday issued notices to the federal government and other respondents on a petition seeking legal action against ...

Awareness about dengue urged
LAHORE PUNJAB Environment Secretary Sher Alam Mehsood has stressed the need for creating awareness among the people to root out the virus of dengue...

PML-N activist protests against party
LAHORE A female PML-N worker Ayesha Sughra held protest along with several party workers outside the Jati Umra residence of Nawaz Sharif for not gr...

IJT warns PU against outages
LAHORE ISLAMI Jamiat Talaba (IJT) has warned Punjab University administration of staging a protest demonstration against it if it did not take prop...

Sethi flays blast
LAHORE CARETAKER Chief Minister Najam Sethi has condemned attack on a convoy of security forces in Quetta. In his condolence message on Thursday, ...

No more locomotives import from China, court told
LAHORE PAKISTAN Railways authorities informed the Lahore High Court on Thursday that it has ended its agreement of importing locomotives from a Chi...

Passco procures over one million ton wheat
LAHORE THE Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services Corporation (PASSCO) wheat procurement drive 2013 is in progress and till now the PASSCO has ...

Lawyers observe strike
LAHORE LAWYERS of Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Thursday observed strike in order to condemn killing of a lawyer namely Zain Ghaffar. The lawy...