LAHORE -  Plains of the country including the City remained in the grip of severe heat wave on Sunday with experts predicting the prevailing harsh weather conditions to persist during the next couple of days. With the mercury rising gradually, unscheduled loadshedding has added to the woes of ...

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari, who arrived in the provincial metropolis on Sunday on a two-day ‘fact finding’ mission, told a Safma delegation at Bilawal House that PPP could not run its election campaign in Punjab due to threats from the Taliban. The insiders also quoted the ...

LAHORE  - OUR STAFF REPORTER - Aleema Khan, PTI leader and sister of party chairman Imran Khan on late Sunday night, following the directions of Imran Khan, asked the party volunteers to call off the protest against the poll rigging at Lalik Jan Chowk, Defence and gather in the federal capital ...

LAHOREAn inquest kicked off after a 40-year-old woman was found stabbed in her house in the Sanda police limits Saturday. Complainant Faqeer Hussain told the police that unidentified men forced their entry into his house on Malik Munir Road and stabbed to death his wife Tayyaba Nasreen. Police ...

LAHORE - The president of Peoples Unity of PIA Employees (CBA) Lahore, Sajid Gujjar, and Secretary General Hussain Abbas have alleged PML-N-backed association employees, Air League, is involved in torturing the Unity office-bearers. They were addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club on ...

LAHOREChief Minister Najam Sethi has said the Lahore Museum is an important tourist and cultural centre of Pakistan. He said the relics preserved in the Museum are a cultural heritage and there is a need for their conservation and upkeep on scientific lines. He said all necessary resources would be ...

LAHORE - Chairman Samanabad Town Emergency Response Committee and Provincial Secretary Schools Muhammad Aslam Kamboh has on Wednesday said that a paint factory at Babu Sabu Shaheenabad and Rafi Center Qadirpura Bazar Sodiwal have been sealed upon detection of dengue larvae in the premises and cases ...

LAHORE - Three people were killed in road mishaps in different parts of the provincial capital, police sources said on Wednesday.A cyclist was crushed to death by a rashly-driven van on Shalimar Link Road. The deceased, identified as Pervaiz, said to be a security guard, was on his way home on the ...

LAHORE - Two men ended their lives in different parts of the City, police said on Monday. A 50-year-old man committed suicide by throwing himself under a train in the Mughalpura area. Police sources said the man, yet to be identified, threw himself under a train near Karachi railway crossing in the ...

LAHORE - rPOTING TEAM - Polling on 13 national and 25 provincial assembly constituencies of Lahore by and large remained peaceful throughout the elections day on Saturday.A great deal of enthusiasm was shown by both voters and non-voters. A healthy turnout was seen at the polling stations since ...

Chief of his own faction of Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif Saturday polled his vote saying that he was optimistic about his party victory.Former prime minister arrived at Government Technical College at Railways Road here under tight security where he polled his vote.After casting vote, Nawaz ...

VADODARA - The first death anniversary of late maharaja Ranjitsinh Gaekwad falls on May 10. A family across the border in Lahore will also pray for the late maharaja. Such is the attachment of the family with the city and its royals that its members have named a sporting equipment business of ...

Lahore - LIFE LINERS  - TV footage and photos showed fire forcing people to jump (to death) from a 13-storey building in Lahore on Thursday – five days after Pakistan joined the world in celebrating Firefighters Day.More than half a dozen people were reported killed and several suffered ...

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 ...

Chief Minister Najam Sethi on Wednesday said that Lahore Walled City Project is of vital importance for conservation of the cultural heritage and historical buildings of the city and there is a need for furthering this project in a coordinated manner. He was presiding over a meeting at Chief ...

At least five persons were killed and two others injured while several others trapped when a fire erupted at LDA plaza in Lahore on Thursday, rescue sources said.Fire erupted at the seventh floor of 13-storey LDA building around noon and rapidly engulfed three other floors.Three men, in an attempt ...

Chief Minister Najam Sethi presided over a high level meeting here Monday which considered the matters pertaining to Lahore Museum and the conservation of relics and ancient items through modern methods. Addressing the meeting, Najam Sethi said that historical relics were a precious national ...

After an extensive election campaign throughout the country, Imran Khan stumbled and fell down from a lifter resulting in some injuries.Just after the fall, Khan was rushed to hospital in a bit unconscious condition. He had just reached area for election procession and was getting on the top when ...

LAHORE - One more measles patient died at a local hospital on Saturday, taking the death toll in Lahore to 42.  Umaira, seven months, breathed her last at Children’s Hospital. Demand Pakistan Pediatrics Association Punjab chapter president Dr Syed Masood Saeed has said that the ...

LAHORE - A leader of the Sunni Tehrik was killed in a drive-by shooting in the Tibbi City area on Friday, police said. Khurum Raza Qadri, 45, was on his way home in an auto-rickshaw after leading Friday prayers at the Begum Shahi Masjid Moti Bazaar when two gunmen riding on a Honda-125 motorcycle ...

Litter Free Lahore Resolution campaign of Lahore Waste Management Company concludes after 10 days intensive drive convincing half million Lahorites to pledge to join LWMC’s efforts for a cleaner Lahore. The drive was launched on April 23 with an aim to take pledge from Lahorites on the ...

LAHORE  - FIA Immigration authorities on Monday arrested a passenger trying to board a Copenhagen bound flight on fake travel document, said spokesman of Immigration here. He said that passenger Rizwan Ali son of Muhammad Asghar, resident of Gujrat reached Allama Iqbal International Airport to ...

LAHORE - Lahore scored second victory in the Motorway Police U-16 Hockey Championship routing FATA 13-1 here at the National Hockey Stadium on Tuesday. In the other four matches, Mirpur Khas, Larkana, Swat and Quetta also marched ahead by beating their respective opponents. Lahore finished the ...

LAHORE  - PML-Q senior central leader Ch Pervaiz Elahi has said that his party will always continue serving the people, irrespective of whether we are in the govt or in Opposition. He said people should take a decision on looking at our works.Addressing a big election meeting in NA-104, Union ...

The Litter-Free Lahore Campaign is in full swing as noted people, including Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi, joined the drive.As per programme, the Lahore Waste Management Company has installed more than 100 bins in Liberty Market, Barkat Market, Shalimar Link Road Market and Baghbanpura Market ...

LAHORE - Goods, machinery, and valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when huge fire erupted in a shoemaking factory at Bund Road in the Shafiqabad police limits on early Tuesday, police and eyewitness said. Firefighters said the fire, which erupted because of short-circuiting, ...

LAHORE -Two children burnt alive and another wounded critically when a shack caught fire near the Expo Centre in Johar Town, police and rescuers said Monday. “The fire is under control right now but two girls are found expired,” Nawab Town station house officer said.  The deceased ...

LAHORE - JAWAD RAWAN -  Considering the provincial capital as the major electoral battleground of PTI, Imran Khan formally launched his party’s election campaign from NA-122 on Saturday. The PTI launched its election drive from the provincial metropolis through ‘Tabdeeli Express ...

 Air Chief Tahir Rafique Butt has said besides maintaining the highest professional standards, there is a need of the hour to be ready to respond any external or internal security challenge. He was addressing a gathering of airmen after inspecting Lahore PAF Base Friday. He urged the ...

lahore :  our staff reporter  - On the direction of Director General Excise and Taxation (E&T), Hamayun Mazhar, E&T property Tax department has started grand operation against farm houses and sealed 22 tax defaulter farm houses in the city on Wednesday.Most of the farm houses were ...