Recovery of liquor: LHC allows student to take university exam
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday allowed a Faisalabad university student to take an exam. The university administration had stopped him from taking the exam after some liquor bottles were...
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Power cuts: Hundreds rally against load shedding, Karachi deaths
LAHORE / MULTAN: Hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers took out a...
View ArticleIs rape gendered?
A few days ago, a jirga in Sindh saw it fit to convict a 10-year-old boy of having an affair with a woman in her thirties, and ordered him to pay a fine to the ‘aggrieved’ party. Frankly, the verdict...
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Model Town homicide: ‘Fingerprints of only the deceased found on the gun’
LAHORE: A forensic examination has found that a pistol recovered from the Model Town house where five of a family were found shot and killed on Wednesday bore fingerprints of a male member of the...
View ArticleMoney-laundering; Customs Intelligence gets time to file reply
LAHORE: Justice Abdul Sami of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted time to Customs Intelligence officials for filing a reply in a money-laundering case against model Ayan Ali. The court then put...
View ArticleUS ignored ‘unique mayhem’ of gun violence for too long: Obama
CHARLESTON: US President Barack Obama made a fresh pitch for tighter gun controls Friday as he eulogised the pastor killed in the Charleston church shootings, saying Americans had ignored the toll of...
View ArticleDisciplinary action: Proceedings against lawyers involved in locking courtroom
LAHORE: The Sheikhupura District Bar Association suspended the membership of three lawyers and filed a reference for taking disciplinary action against another 102 advocates for locking the court of an...
View ArticleFraud: Bail plea dismissed
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge dismissed on Friday a pre-arrest bail plea by a man accused of rape and defrauding a family in the name of black magic. Yousaf said Ali had told him...
View ArticlePreserving Pakistan: ‘To fight terrorism, consider people partners in govt’
LAHORE: Historian Ayesha Jalal said on Saturday rooting out terrorism from the country required changing the pattern of governance to one where people were considered equal partners, rather than...
View ArticleEight years on: Two degree colleges at Dhok Syedan in doldrums
RAWALPINDI: Work on two newly constructed degree colleges in Dhok Syedan has been in doldrums for the last eight years, adding to the sufferings of the youth, who have to travel for miles to reach...
View ArticleWASA braces for monsoon season
LAHORE: The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) has established 26 emergency camps and installed 72 generators to cope with any untoward situation during the forthcoming monsoon season in the city. The...
View ArticleCopa America: Redemption for Tevez as Argentina reach semis
VIñA DEL MAR: Carlos Tevez fired Argentina into the semi-finals of the Copa America on Friday, scoring the decisive spot-kick as the tournament favourites defeated Colombia 5-4 in a dramatic penalty...
View Article‘No one will be allowed to fleece the public’
LAHORE: Excise and Taxation Minister Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman said on Saturday that the government had established Ramazan Bazaars province-wide to provide flour, sugar, ghee and vegetables among other...
View ArticleIt’s in the air: Local climatic shift, a global trickle-down effect
PESHAWAR: A mini-cyclone ripped through Peshawar division in April – at least 49 people were killed within hours in a phenomenon not even remotely common to the region. As unpredictability of weather...
View ArticleRossi holds off Marquez to win Dutch MotoGP
ASSEN: Valentino Rossi strengthened his world championship lead on Saturday by coming out on top in a thrilling battle with Marc Marquez to win the Dutch MotoGP at Assen. The Italian, on his Yamaha,...
View ArticleBroad daylight: Four sisters gunned down
PESHAWAR: Four sisters were gunned down while two children were shot, injured when a man opened fire on them in Mohallah Hussainia in Hashtnagri on Saturday. Police said Fazal Hussain, a local drug...
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Weekly review: Politics and year-end selling drag KSE-100 down by 641 points
KARACHI: The stock market remained hostage to political developments and year-end profit taking as the benchmark KSE-100 index fell 641 points (1.9%) to end the week at 33,885, falling below the...
View ArticleNA-122 inquiry: Rigging claims baseless, says PML-N lawyer
LAHORE: An election tribunal investigating alleged rigging in the NA-122 constituency adjourned the hearing on Saturday for June 30. Counsel for Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, the winning candidate from the...
View ArticleCourt Diary: IHC sees flurry of activity vis-à-vis capital’s LG polls
ISLAMABAD: The upcoming local bodies’ polls for the capital seem to getting mired in controversy as the issue of the necessary pending bill with the Senate has pitched the Election Commission of...
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Paratha party: Couple brings street food back in vogue
ISLAMABAD: They say it’s not about ideas, it is about making them happen and that there is nothing like turning your passion into your work. This is precisely what street food enthusiasts Waseem Siddiq...
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