FAISALABADA woman with critical burns was admitted to Allied Hospital Faisalabad after her husband allegedly set her on fire here on Monday. According to rescue sources, a man identified as Muhammad Jameel burnt his wife after sprinkling petrol on her over a domestic issue in the Madina Town area. ...

FAISALABAD: A woman with critical burns was admitted to Allied Hospital Faisalabad after her husband allegedly set her on fire here on Monday. According to rescue sources, a man identified as Muhammad Jameel burnt his wife after sprinkling petrol on her over a domestic issue in the Madina Town ...

  FAISALABAD   The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has swept polls on at least ten national assembly and 21 provincial assembly seats inFaisalabaddistrict. Of a total of 11 national assembly and 22 provincial assembly seats inFaisalabad, elections to NA-83 and PP-51 were postponed due to ...

FAISALABADThe two-member team of European Union Election Observation Mission comprising Janno SIMM and Judith SZABO has arrived here on Wednesday to observe the process of general elections. The team member called on DCO Najam Ahmad Shah and discussed the matters relating to the arrangement for ...

Faisalabad Electricity Supply Company (KESC) on Monday suspended power supply to more than four hundred textile factories for indefinite period.Thousands of workers were unemployed due to continuous closure of the factories as the units were hit by gas and electricity supply suspension.According to ...

ISLAMABAD - Faisalabad Board won the Inter Board 2012 Football championships after beating hosts Federal Board 1-0 in the final here at Jinnah Stadium on Sunday.Faisalabad Board scored the only goal in the dying moments of the final and lift the title.In the hockey final at Naseer Bunda Stadium, ...

LAHORE – A police inquiry has absolved Muhammad Asghar, the main accused in the Faisalabad’s infamous gang-rape case of Samina Bibi. The probe, conducted and completed by DIG Maj (retired) Mubashirullah Khan, has also declared Asghar’s friends as not guilty.“A few culprits, ...

LAHORE – The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday took serious notice of Faisalabad police’s failure to arrest the main accused involved in gang rape case and gave them a seven day deadline to arrest Asghar Ali, reportedly a friend of Punjab Law Minster.A two-member bench comprising ...

ISLAMABAD - Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Faisalabad lifted the All Pakistan Inter-board Girls Gymnastic Championship 2011-12 title by securing 59.88 points, edging out Islamabad after a very close finish. All-Pakistan Inter Boards Girls Gymnastic Championship was organised ...

LAHORE Faisalabads University Club and Arifwalas Al Hilal Club qualified for the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) League Punjab Zone play-offs at Punjab Stadium, Lahore last night. The PFF League, a tier II competition of PFF, began in 2004 under directives of PFF President Makhdoom Syed Faisal ...

FAISALABAD/MULTAN - The entire spinning industry in the country including 350 mills of South Punjab region went on a two-day strike on a call given by APTMA against imposition of regulatory duty on yarn export. The spinning units were shut down and no work was done. Resultantly, thousands of ...

LAHORE - Senior Punjab Minister Raja Riaz Ahmed called on Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Friday and discussed with him the problem of loadshedding in Faisalabad. According to an official handout, it was decided in the meeting that in future only 3-hour loadshedding ...

KARACHI - Muhammad Tauseeq with a brilliant hat trick steered Faisalabad Bulls to confident 3-2 win over favourites Lahore Lions in the final to lift the MCB sponsored inaugural Junior Super Hockey league here on Friday night to pocket the winners purse of Rs 0.7 million at the Hockey Club of ...

LAHORE - Seven matches were decided in the PFF U-16 Football Youth Cup at various centres on Monday night with Faisalabad White's Ali Adil becoming first hat-trick maker. Lahore Red were off to a spectacular start, beating Lahore Green 5-0 at PEL's Football Ground PEL Ground, near Kainchi, ...

KARACHI - Sialkot batted cautiously and responsibly to carve out a fine four wickets win over Faisalabad in low scoring match of PCB/Mobilink under16 cricket here Thursday at National stadium. The winners faced a low winning target of 154 set by their opponents but instead of rushing to the target ...

LAHORE - LES. Lahore, Lums, GCU Faisalabad and UET Lahore won their respective matches of the Pakistan Inter Varsities Tennis (M) Championship being held under the auspices of Higher Education Commission, Islamabad at the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Tennis Courts. U.E.T. ...

FAISALABAD (APP) - The one-day cricket match to be played between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Iqbal Stadium here on January 27 has been shifted to Multan. A spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said here Sunday that the site has been changed due to the non-availability of suitable hotel ...

FAISALABAD (APP) - Faisalabad has won Jashn-e-Azadi Inter-district Wrestling Championship played in university of agriculture Faisalabad here on Sunday night. Forty seven wrestlers from 10 districts participated while 53 bouts were decided during this championship. Chaudhary Khalid Hussain ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Saturday that due to terrorism the nation was experiencing severe psychological depression. He was speaking at the inaugural session of a seminar on psychological problems organized by National University of Science and Technology. Gilani said the ...

The Chief Election Commissioner has accepted the nomination papers of Asif Ali Zardari, Justice Saeeduzaman Siddiqui and Mushahid Hussain after scrutiny here on Thursday. CEC Qazi Muhammad Farooq has scrutinized the papers on which no objection has been filed from any side. Thirty-two candidates ...

An American soldier has died of wounds sustained in a small arms attack in northern Baghdad, the US military in Iraq said on Thursday. The soldier was wounded when the foot patrol came under attack on Wednesday, a military statement said without giving further details. He was transferred to a ...

Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said the nation would soon hear a "good news about Balochistan". PM Gilani on Wednesday said the country's president should be the symbol of federation, adding the nomination of Asif Ali Zardari as presidential candidate was made on the same principle. The ...

Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Chief, Maulana Fazlur Rahman has said that the restoration of judges was being made a major issue unduly and added that Nawaz Sharif's taking stern stance on one issue only was not reasonable, as the judges reinstatement as compared to other issues was not at all that ...

A grenade thrown into a wedding reception in central Burundi killed at least 10 people and injured 48, police said Sunday. A police spokesman said a half-brother of the groom had been detained for the attack on Saturday night in the Rutegama hill region of Gitega province. "A man threw a ...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit on Thursday to discuss the future of US forces in Iraq, a foreign news agency said. Rice is expected to meet Iraqi leaders including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as well as senior US officials to discuss the status of ...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility of the deadly blasts in Wah Cantt area which killed at least 60 people and injured scores others on Thursday. According to sources, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan accepted the responsibility for the double suicide blasts.  

At least 13 members of Algeria's security forces and a civilian were killed in an ambush by armed groups in the east of the country, Algerian newspapers reported Tuesday. The attack, which took place Sunday in Skikda, was one of the deadliest in the past few weeks and also left about a dozen ...

Twenty-three more persons were killed including 16 extremists and 28 others injured as clashes between the rival Bangash and Turi tribesmen continued in various parts of the Kurram Agency for the 11th straight day. Sources said that fighting continued in rival tribes for the eleventh straight day ...

Kurram Agency fresh fighting claimed 13 dead including the 11 extremists, while 15 left wounded. Sources said that the skirmishes in different areas of the Kurram Agency continued unabated, in which, heavy and automatic weapons were used. Fresh fighting left 13 dead including 11 extremists, while ...

FAISALABAD - The Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI), Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA), All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association (APTPMA), Khurianwala Industrial Estate Association (KIEA), Dyes & Chemical Association, Soap Manufactures Association, Power ...