The Lahore High Court (LHC) took notice of acid attack on a woman and her daughters after they resisted a rape attempt in Multan District on Saturday. The court directed District & Sessions Judge concerned to probe into matter and submit a detailed report regarding steps taken by local police ...

MULTANContrary to the Election 2008, the fresh polls have brought big success to the PML-N in Multan as it succeeded to win four out of six national assembly and 11 out of 13 provincial assembly seats of the district. At a time when the total vote of PPPP has dipped by 40 per cent in Multan, the ...

MULTAN Once the PPPP leadership rose a slogan, telling the masses that democracy is the best revenge. The people seem to have crammed this slogan and perfectly applied it in Election 2013. An analysis reveals that the PPPP lost almost 40 per cent of its vote in four national and nine ...

MULTANAlthough the election is over, the celebrations continue in Multan. The town presents a unique view of festivity and gloom as the supporters of the winners celebrate the triumph while the losers are submerged by sadness. The results have flung the analysis of many political analysts in their ...

MULTAN The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has almost finalised arrangements for polling as 1,572 polling stations have been set up across the district for 2110207 registered voters. The ECP sources said that a total of 4,733 polling booths are constituted in the polling stations while ...

Multan - Canadian High Commissioner Greg Giokas has said Pakistan has a fabulous agriculture sector.“Pakistan has a fabulous agri sector which is perhaps spending 20 per cent of their GDP in it whereas we spend 3 per cent of our GDP. We have highly paying jobs in the sector for which we need ...

Gunmen on Thursday kidnapped the son of a former prime minister on the last day of campaigning for elections and shot dead one of the son's aides, police said.Ali Haider Gilani, a candidate for the Punjab provincial assembly, was seized in a hail of gunfire on the outskirts of the city of Multan in ...

MULTAN - The PML-N has finally started issuing tickets to its candidates from different constituencies of Multan as the names of final candidates from four out of six national assembly and nine out of 13 provincial assembly constituencies have been announced, The Nation has learnt.Sources disclosed ...

MULTAN - MUHAMMAD IRTAZA - The PML-N is learnt to have finalised the names of its ticket holders from different constituencies of Multan and a formal announcement is likely to be made in a day or two.  The PPPP has already announced its candidates from the entire South Punjab. Like PML-N, ...

MULTAN - The PML N has finally started issuing tickets to its candidates from different constituencies of Multan as the names of final candidates from four out of six National Assembly and nine out of 13 Provincial Assembly constituencies have been announced, TheNation has learnt.Sources disclosed ...

MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH - Former MNA Jamshed Dasti was released from Central Jail Multan in compliance of a verdict of Lahore High Court Multan Bench here on Thursday. Mr Dasti was convicted in a fake degree case by a District and Sessions court in Muzaffargarh, but a division bench of LHC Multan Bench ...

MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH - Former MNA Jamshed Dasti was released from Central Jail Multan in compliance of a verdict of Lahore High Court Multan Bench here on Thursday. Mr Dasti was convicted in a fake degree case by a District and Sessions court in Muzaffargarh, but a division bench of LHC Multan Bench ...

Fire broke out at a cloth market in Multan early Saturday morning causing huge financial losses.Rescue sources said that fire broke out at Kalay Mandi Bazaar of the city early in the morning that gutted 15 to 20 shops rapidly.Eight fire tenders soon reached the site to tame the blaze, however, ...

LAHORE – People of Multan, Bhakkar and Mianwali are unhappy over the announcement of proposed province of Bahawalpur Janoobi Punjab, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday.Talking to the media on the occasion of inclusion of PPP leader Farooq Arshad into the PTI, Qureshi ...

MULTAN - Commissioner Multan division Muhammad Khurram Agha has said that Multan is not just a historic city but an ancient civilization and all-out efforts are being made to restore the historical heritage of this civilization.Talking to an Italian delegation, he added that 52 monuments and ...

MULTAN - Commissioner Multan division Muhammad Khurram Agha has said that Multan is not just a historic city but an ancient civilization and all-out efforts are being made to restore the historical heritage of this civilization.Talking to an Italian delegation, he added that 52 monuments and ...

MULTAN - Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif is due in Multan on November 15 on a daylong visit. The chief minister is coming down to Multan to distribute laptops among students in a ceremony being held in Bahauddin Zakariya University. He will distribute over 7,000 thousand laptops on the ...

LAHORE - The 667 acres Multan Industrial estate, Phase-II is nearing completion and will be ready by December 2012. This was stated by the Chairman Punjab Industrial Estates SM Tanveer that the industrial community has taken keen interest in investing in this estate. The projects restarted in 2011 ...

ISLAMABAD - Victory of Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani from NA-151 Multan the other day, though with narrow margin, has created an opportunity for his father, the former prime minister, to outmatch political opponents in the general election by exploiting the issue of Seraiki province.Political sources ...

Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) has arrested the former Drug Controller Sheikh Ansar and his two sons for his involvement in the ephedrine import quota scam. The family of Mr Anwar while confirming the arrest said he has been missing for the last three days and was certainly being interrogated for ...

MULTAN - The Punjab government has sought proposals from the district government for launching an Istanbul-like mass transit system in Multan. Sources disclosed that a high level committee is also formed on the pattern of Lahore’s Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency and DCO ...

LAHORE - Multan Press Club outclassed Sports Journalists Association of Lahore (SJAL) by huge 95 runs margin in the Punjab Sports Festival cricket hardball final, which concluded here at the LCCA ground on Friday. Multan team was combination of some very professional and talented players and they ...

LAHORE – Sports Journalists Association of Lahore (SJAL) outpaced Sports Writers Association of Punjab (SWAP) by 65 runs to reach the final of the Punjab Sports Festival cricket hardball event here at Faisal Town ground on Wednesday. SJAL will take on Multan Press Club in the final who ...

MULTAN – Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan can gain a respectable place in the world by making advancement in research and technology.Addressing at the inaugural ceremony of Multan Campus at the Air University, the PM said: “We’ll have to equip our children ...

MULTAN/BADIN/KASUR/TANDO MUHAMMAD KHAN – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were proved equally strong in Multan as they won one seat each in the by-polls held on Saturday.According to the unofficial results, the PPP also retained the vacant seat ...

MULTAN - The district administration has imposed Section 144 on and around 200 meter radius of all polling stations of constituencies NA-148 and 149 for February 25, the polling day set for by-elections. Administrator city district government Mudassar Riaz Malik issued the notification for ...

ISLAMABAD - Neglecting various vital development projects of country especially from Balochistan, the road maintenance packages of Multan and Larkana are allegedly being given much importance with these areas getting comparatively smooth funding for development as compared to others.Contrary to ...

MULTAN - Secretary General of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat Pakistan (ASWP) Dr Khadim Hussain Dhillon has said that the third Difa-e-Pakistan Conference (DPC) in Multan will prove a historic event and final nail in the coffin of anti-Pakistan elements.Addressing a news conference here on Friday, he added ...

Fire caused due to electric short circuit gutted five shops in grains market here in Multan late Thursday night.According to rescue sources, the fire erupted in a shop located in grains market of Multan at late night. The fire spread rapidly and engulfed the surrounding shops. Rescue 1122 and fire ...

MULTAN - The district police have launched a crackdown on foreigners, staying illegally in Multan as a Sri Lankan was arrested here on Tuesday. The Sri Lankan was identified as Christi Silva, who was caught from Maryam Church located in the area of Muzaffarabad Police.Sources said that Multan City ...