LAHORE- More and more measles patients keep pouring in. So far 155 kids have died of measles in the province, including 84 in Lahore. On Friday, as many as 198 measles patients were admitted to different hospitals in the province including 28 in Lahore. So far 17,689 measles cases have ...

Islamabad- On the directives of Islamabad High Court (IHC), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa authorities Wednesday produced before the court a missing person Ameer Ahmed allegedly abducted by the intelligence agencies.The provincial authorities presented Ameer Ahmed, a resident of Rahim Yar Khan, before Justice ...

LAHORE - Authorities Wednesday claimed to have achieved the target fixed for nine-day anti-measles campaign in Lahore. More than 2.6 million children aging between six months to ten years have been vaccinated, the media was told. Punjab Health Director General Dr Tanvir Ahmed said children, who ...

RAWALPINDI - Overcharging of water connection fee has sparked resentment among the residents of Dhok Gujran and allied areas.The committee set up by Cantonment Board Rawalpindi to collect fee from the applicants in the areas of Dhok Gujran and new localities charged water connection fee ranging ...

lahore - Excise and Taxation (E&T) authorities on Thursday sealed more than 50 properties in Zone-A extended Region-B. Director General Excise and Taxation, Hamayun Mazhar formed team headed by Assistant Excise and Taxation Officer (AETO), Malik Aslam and team members, Raja Asif, Shahid Ameen ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday expressed annoyance over authorities’ failure to arrest former chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) in a scam case and ordered to arrest and present Tauqir Sadiq before court till 26th December.A two-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice ...

RAWALPINDI – The citizens have called on the authorities concerned to outline a comprehensive plan to solve traffic congestion in the city as heavy traffic jam on city roads especially after launching of sixth road flyover project on Benazir Bhutto Road (Murree road) is creating a lot of ...

RAWALPINDI – District Coordination Officer (DCO) Rawalpindi Saqib Zafar on Saturday directed the authorities concerned to regularly check he attendance of teachers and students in government  schools while conducting their inspections.He said that the field officers should examine the ...

RAWALPINDI - The citizens have called on the authorities concerned to outline a comprehensive plan to solve traffic congestion in the city as heavy traffic jam on city roads especially after launching of sixth road flyover project on Benazir Bhutto Road (Murree Road) is creating a lot of problems ...

LAHORE – Hardened of the criminals currently housed in Kot Lakhpat jail have launched a campaign against jail authorities only to keep them under pressure and get illegal relief in imprisonment, a senior officer of the prison department said on Saturday. He said that to fulfil their nefarious ...

Rafia Naheed IkramLAHORE – The illness of 16-year old Microsoft certified professional degree holder Arfa Kareem Randhawa, who astonished the whole world at age 9 to get that milestone, could not be diagnosed till her death. The doctors at the CMH Hospital could not succeed to know what had ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SIALKOT - With only 22 railways police personnel deputed to protect 28 stations and 114-kilometre-long rail tracks of Sialkot-Pasrur-Narowal and Sialkot-Sambrial-Wazirabad sections, deep insecurities have emerged which the authorities are still oblivious to. The possibility of ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The Ministry of Housing and Works and the Capital Development Authority (CDA) have failed to evict illegal occupants from 200 government flats in Sector G-6 (Aabpara). Policemen and civilians have illegally occupied the flats built by the CDA during 1990s at Aabpara but somehow ...

LAHORE The Punjab government has created six authorities and two foundations in addition existing departments, which is causing duplication of the functioning in the governance, while no other administrative wing has been abolished to ease burden on the public kitty and replication of working. ...

LAHORE The Lahore High Court Justice Umar Ata Bandial Thursday directed the authorities concerned to keep the Bibi Pakdaman Shrine open for the public visit throughout the night on July 17, on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat. Accepting the plea in this regard the court also directed the police to ...

LAHORE - Following directions of the Lahore High Court, Barrister Muhammad Iqbal Jafree has written a 130-page letter to the American justice authorities to seek release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui on as many as 64 points raised therein for this purpose. Dr Aafia, charged with attacking American marines, ...

ISLAMABAD - In a surprising move, the United Nations has passed the buck on the captain of the cargo ship currently stranded in India, thus 'acquitting the Indian authorities of the blame they had earned by detaining the Pakistan bound ship. As per standard procedure, the option of an alternative ...

ISLAMABAD - American policies are not of a friend but of a foe and Richard Holbrooke and Mike Mullen are in Pakistan to put a price on our loyalty to our religion and the Islamic State of Pakistan but we are not a saleable commodity. Federal Minister for Science & Technology Azam Khan Swati while ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's former Davis Cuppers Mushaf Zia and Hameedul Haq criticised the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) for following a dubious procedure in which hand-picked players were invited for Davis Cup trials. The PTF, instead of conducting open trials, invited seven players including Asim ...

LAHORE - Food adulteration and contamination is on phenomenal rise as Food Department of City District Government Lahore and Task Force on food adulteration are in slumber. Moreover over the last five months, anti-adulteration campaign has been suspended owing to inactivity of these authorities, ...

ISLAMABAD - Defending champion Hameed-ul-Haq has pulled out from the Asian Seniors Tennis Championship due to lack of help from the countries tennis authorities. The tournament was scheduled to be held from November 17 to 23 at Bangkok, Thailand. The 46-year-old former Davis Cup captain ...

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday said the government will follow the policy of political dialogue in tribal areas, however no one would be allowed to challenge writ of the government. "Political dialogue is our first option instead of military action in tribal areas," the Prime ...