BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing city authorities on Friday issued new rules requiring microbloggers to register their real names before posting online, as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Internet. The city government now requires users of weibos - the Chinese version of Twitter - to give ...

LAHORE Capital City Police Officer Ahmad Raza Tahir has directed the police to ensure use of walkthrough gates and metal detectors at all Masajids during Juma congregations. The CCPO has also directed the police to keep the record of all rented accommodations at the relevant police stations, ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has directed NDMA to launch an anti-malaria campaign in flood-hit areas. Amid the eminent risk of spread of malaria in the areas recently affected by floods, the Prime Minister instructed the authority to take precautionary measures and get ready ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Plastic Surgeon of Clapp Trust Dr Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday and apprised him of the performance of his organisation regarding treatment of cleft and lip palate patients. The Clapp Trust is running a programme in ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday declared the degree of PML (Q) MPA Syeda Majida Zaidi as fake and ordered the relevant District Police Officer (DPO) to lodge first information report (FIR) against her. ECP heard a total of five cases of fake degree holders on Thursday ...

MULTAN - District Coordination Officer Zahid Akhtar Zaman directed tehsil municipal and revenue officers to launch action against land grabbers and encroachers on daily basis and continue the drive till their elimination. Addressing a meeting held to review the situation of ongoing operation ...

Our Staff reporter CHUNIAN - District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) Hamayun Imtiaz ordered the DPO to take stern action against SI Niamat Ali, ASI Shoukat Farzand and duty officer for showing false recovery of a 30 bore pistol and subsequent registration of a cooked up against Niaz Ahmad, a resident of ...

LAHORE Capital City Police Officer Ahmad Raza Tahir on Thursday directed the police to ensure comprehensive strategy for maintenance of security for Jumma prayers through snap checking. According to an official handout issued, he further ordered the police to ensure the usage of walk-through ...

LAHORE Capital City Police Officer Additional IG Malik Ahmed Raza Tahir has directed the subordinates to start their day by reciting holy verses to control crimes, insiders revealed. Raza will further address the SPs of Saddar Police Division, SHOs and investigation in-charges on Tuesday (today). ...

RAWALPINDI - While taking strict notice of soaring purse snatching incidents from females and others, City Police Officer (CPO) Azhar Hameed Khokhar directed all the police officers to evolve a comprehensive strategy to tackle the criminals or else be ready to face the music. In this regard, two ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down PML-Qs request to separate Moonis Elahis case from the NICL financial scam. The court granted another week to FIA Director General Malik Muhammad Iqbal to get the order for transferring Zafar Qureshi, FIA Additional Director General, from the ...

LAHORE - Additional District and Session Judge Muhammad Yousif Aujla on Tuesday issued orders for trial of US national Raymond Davis inside Kot Lakhpat Jail. The court passed the orders against an application filed by Prosecution Department on the behalf of Punjab Home Department. As per details, ...

LAHORE Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court on Monday ordered for recounting of ballot papers in NA-157, Khanewal III, from where PML(Q)s Hamid Yar Khan Hiraj had returned member of the National Assembly in the February 8, 2008 elections. Deciding the petition of Muhammad Khan Daha ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - An Indian court ordered state-run Air India on Friday to rehire an airline hostess that the carrier had sacked nearly a decade ago for being overweight. Dismissed overweight women have previously unsuccessfully challenged Air Indias policy in Indian courts, which upheld clauses in ...

RACHEL McAdams has been told to stop making stupid movies The Canadian actress has revealed how she was criticised by an immigration official as she tried to enter America. She kicked me to the curb, Rachel said. She was tough. I had pink hair at the time, and she said 'Dont dye your hair that ...

LAHORE-Taking notice of the media reports regarding rowdy behaviour of PPP activists during proceedings of a workshop organised by BISPs zonal office on Monday to brief them about the significance of the poverty survey, PPPs top leadership has ordered inquiry into the incident which brought a bad ...

ISLAMABAD A three-member Supreme Court bench on Friday directed the Punjab Environmental Tribunal to conduct day-to-day hearing and dispose of 297 pending cases of environmental pollution in Rawal Lake by October 22. The bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam ...

Raging floodwaters from Hamal Lake may enter Dadu district anytime today, report said on Friday. DCO Iqbal Memon told a private TV channel that people of 391 villages of 18 union councils of Mehar, Khairpur Nathan Shah and Juhi, districts of Dadu, have been directed to leave. The capacity of MNV ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) The residents of Shehr Sultan, Muzaffargarh have been issued directives to evacuate in view of imminent flooding, on Wednesday. According to a private TV channel, Shehr Sultan is surrounded by floodwater on all its sides, as the water pressure is mounting on a bund. Meantime, Pak ...

LAHORE - Despite the opposition by Finance Department, Planning and Development (P&D), Housing, and Traffic Planning and Engineering Agency (Tepa), orders have been issued for releasing Rs125 million to the most favoured firm of the top echelons. The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) had already ...

PARIS (AFP) Nicolas Anelka was among five France internationals ordered to appear before the disciplinary commission of the French Football Federation (FFF) on Friday to explain the teams training ground strike at the World Cup. The 31-year-old Chelsea striker was sent home early from South Africa ...

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered judicial enquiry into the tragic incident on Ring Road at Karol Ghati. He was presiding over a meeting held to review the incident of Karol Ghati, says a handout issued here Sunday. MNA Mian Marghoob Ahmad, MPAs Khawaja Salman Rafiq, Hafiz ...

Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA), Imtiaz Inayat Elahi has directed an inquiry of fraud in Municipal Administration Department. The Chairman CDA has directed the inquiry committee to present its report within a week. According to sources, pay orders for DMA were being transferred to ...

ISLAMABAD-In a suo moto case of three teenagers who were gunned down by the police in a fake encounter two years back, Supreme Court on Friday directed the Home Secretary Sindh to give Rs1.1 million as compensation to the family of each of the deceased. According to details, Gul Baig Jagirani, 12, ...

LAHORE - Administrator City District Government Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta has directed the officials to carryout fresh survey of identified 465 dilapidated buildings in the City and submit detailed report within five days. Chairing a meeting held here on Wednesday, he made it clear that the report ...

The Punjab Education Foundation has started a departmental inquiry against the management of Al-Mairaj Public School, Bund Road, Lahore for receiving price of text-books, provided by Punjab Education Foundation free of cost, from its students. According to Spokesman PEF, the PEF management has ...

LAHORE - The District & Sessions Judge Lahore on Wednesday initiated judicial inquiry into the allegations levelled by suspended deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Imran Babar Jamil against two superintendents of police (SPs) who allegedly pressurised him to release an alleged robber. Judge ...

KARACHI - Sindh High Court on Thursday ordered the reopening of the fraud case against Haji Abdul Razzak Yaqoob, head of the ARY International Money Exchange Group based in Dubai and Hussain Lawai, President of Arif Habib Bank for transferring 10m US dollars abroad. The direction was issued by ...

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday ordered administration of Kinnaird College for Women to include names of four teachers in the list of faculty members and allow them to take classes. The court passed this order after the teachers complained that despite ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has directed the law-enforcement agencies to spare no effort to maintain law and order as well as protect life and property of the people. He asked the security agencies that without any delay they should finalise arrangements to maintain religious ...