Over petty issue : Man shot, injured
ISLAMABAD: A man was shot and injured in the Tarlai area of Islamabad on Monday. Saifullah lodged a complaint with the Koral police that Ali shot at him and his neighbour, Sulaiman, and injured them...
View ArticleStreet crime: People catch purse snatcher
ISLAMABAD: Locals and passers-by on Sunday caught a purse snatcher red-handed and handed him over to the police. Police said the suspect was also tortured by the people before the police arrived and...
View ArticleSearch operation: Police, Rangers arrest 20 suspects
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police on Monday arrested 20 suspects during a search operation conducted in the jurisdiction of Shams Colony police station. Police said the search operation was carried out in...
View ArticleReshuffling: FDE transfers, posts principals
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education on Monday transferred and posted principals of some model colleges in federal capital. Islamabad Model College for Boys (IMCB) Sihala Principal Muhammad...
View ArticleSpurned suitor: Student of grade 10 shot dead
FAISALABAD: A student of grade 10 was shot dead by a neighbour in Rachna Town on Monday after she refused his advances. SHO Muhammad Farooq Rahanja told The Express Tribune that they had registered a...
View ArticleVerdicts passed on two murder cases
KASUR: Two judges in Kasur passed verdicts on two murder cases on Monday. Additional District and Sessions Judge Rai Muhammad Nawaz Marth sentenced a murder convict to death and District and Sessions...
View ArticleLeicester claim Premier League title as Spurs held
LONDON: Chelsea substitute Eden Hazard’s stunning late goal earned Chelsea a 2-2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday that completed Leicester City’s fairytale quest for the Premier League. With...
View ArticleSeminar: ‘More women should join legal profession’
LAHORE: More women should join the legal profession, Prof Khawar Qureshi said on Monday. He was addressing a seminar titled: Women in the Legal Fraternity and Role of Women in the Judiciary at the...
View ArticleHarassment incident: ‘PTI capable of protecting its women’
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf women-wing leaders have strongly reacted to the criticism that the party had failed to protect its women activists from harassment at its recent public gathering in...
View ArticlePanama Papers: Larger bench sought to hear pleas against PM
LAHORE: Advocate Gohar Nawaz Sindhu, representing the Pakistan Tehrek-i-Insaf, moved an application before Lahore High Court on Tuesday requesting the court to constitute a larger bench to hear...
View ArticlePolicy slippage: Insisting that government departments, agencies do their duty
LAHORE: On complaints received at its telephone helpline (1043), the Punjab Commission on Status of Women considers its job as that of reminding the line departments concerned about their duties...
View ArticleVocational training: Automobile industry courses introduced
LAHORE: The Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Pakistan Association of Automobile Parts and Accessories...
View ArticleTragic : Five dead, over a dozen injured in accidents
JHANG/MULTAN: Five people died and 10 others were injured in a road accident on Jhang-Khushab Road on Tuesday. Rescue-1122 officials told journalists 15 people from Wan Bhacharan (Johar Abad) were...
View ArticleHeinous crime : Man kills two sons, injures wife and another son
FAISALABAD: A man murdered two of his sons and injured his wife and another son in a Nawan Lahore police precinct, Toba Tek Singh district, on Tuesday. He had suspected that his wife was having an...
View ArticleHorrible : Girl burnt after assault by four men
FAISALABAD: Some men set a 13-year-old girl alight after attempting to rape her in some fields in Chak 468, a Rajoa police precinct, on Tuesday. Doctors at the Chiniot DHQ Hospital treating her said...
View ArticleDeath penalty : A convict executed, another gets a lifeline
SARGODHA: A murder convict was hanged at the district jail on Tuesday morning. The execution of another convict was put off on Tuesday after his family reached a settlement with the petitioners. Jail...
View ArticleMosquito threat: Dengue surveillance audit planned
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique on Tuesday directed hospitals to improve the working of dengue counters. He was presiding over a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on...
View ArticleMetro train: LHC bench hears govt counsel’s arguments
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench will continue to hear on Thursday (tomorrow) arguments on a government application seeking permission to submit details of the Orange Line Metro Train...
View ArticleUnder threat: Jalozai resident demands protection
PESHAWAR: A resident of Jalozai has demanded protection against Pabbi police and PTI district member from Nowshera for allegedly threatening him. Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on...
View ArticleRescue teams: International Firefighters Day observed
PESHAWAR: International Firefighters Day was observed at Rescue 1122 Headquarters on Wednesday. During the event, firefighters said they have been provided equipment to perform their duties. However,...
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