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Call to follow in Last Prophet’s footsteps
Bahawalpur - A Miladun Nabi (SAWW) congregation was organised at Cheema hall of the Govt Sadiq College Women University (GSCWU) Bahawalpur. On the occasion, Vice Chancellor Dr Saiqa Imtiaz Asif was the chief guest. She said that Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the greatest humen being for the hole universe. She further said, “We should fallow his teaching to make our lives ...
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UoG Sports Gala expresses solidarity with Kashmiris
Gujrat - The 10th Sports Gala of the University of Gujrat (UoG) ended here at Hafiz Hayat Campus on Thursday. As many as 1,025 men and women athletes from all UoG campuses vying for honours at different sports contests going on for the last two days dedicated their struggle for victory to the people of occupied Kashmir facing Indian lockdown. There was tremendous uproar of applause from the ...
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Racket involving females in prostitution busted
ATTOCK - The Hassanabdal Police on Wednesday claimed to have busted a racket indulging women forcefully in to sex trade and booked a couple who run the racket in their house. According to the police, the man who run the racket is a harden criminal booked and arrested in many heinous crimes like attempt murder, robbery, dacoity, snatching and looting people in various cities. According to Station ...
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Head money of fugitive announced
SARGODHA - Police have announced the head money of an outlaw involved in heinous crimes. It has been decided in video link meeting presided over by the Regional Police Officer (RPO) Afzal Ahmed Kosar and others among SSP Regional Investigation Branch Najeebur Rehman Bugvi, DPO Mianwali Hassan Asad Alvi, SP Special Branch Tanveer Ahmed, SP legal Sanaullah Khan and district public prosecutor ...
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House adjacent to DPO office robbed amidst RPO’s claims
HAFIZABAD - While the police remained busy arranging a function to be chaired by the RPO Gujranwala in the DPO Office, four armed dacoits intruded into the house of a local trader in the government housing colony, quite adjacent to DPO Office and made off cash, gold ornaments and other household articles worth Rs. 70 lakh in broad day light today. Four dacoits stormed into the house of Muhammad ...
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Minister for strict action against black markeeters, profiteers
SARGODHA/Khanewal - Provincial Minister for Human Resources and Development Ansar Majeed Niazi said that the shopkeepers and traders were exploiting the general public by creating inflation. Addressing a review meeting of performance of price control magistrates (PCMs) at Commissioner House the Provincial minister for human resources has directed the divisional administration that ...
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PHA forms body to extend employees’ contracts
MULTAN - Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA)’s Board of Directors (BoD) formed a committee for extension in contracts of contractual employees. The approval has been given in the 14th BoD meeting held here on Thursday which was led by Chairman PHA Ejaz Hussain Janjua while Deputy Commissioner and Director General PHA Aamir Khattak, MPA Malik Wasif Raan and MPA Sabeen Gul were also ...
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Rainwater pond puts public health at risk
Sambrial - Rain water on railway track at Muhallah Dar Ul Salam near Railway station Sambrial has become dirty pound and spreading diseases. Local people including Mirza Atif, Muhammad Saleem, Imran Tufail, Zeeshan, Rana Raheel etc protested and asked Railway Administration to take action to discharge the water as two high schools and one middle school are located in the area and health of ...
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Two killed, 17 injured in van-trailer collision
FAISALABAD - Two passengers were killed, while 17others including women and children suffered injuries when a rashly driven coaster van collided with trailer on Narwala road near Aminpur interchange on Thursday. According to Rescue 1122, a rashly driven passenger bus was on its way when it collided with trailer coming from opposite direction near Aminpur interchange. Consequently, drivers of both ...
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Rain causes delay in cotton picking, wheat sowing
MULTAN - The Multan city and its suburbs received 9.9mm rain during the last 24 hours turning weather cold and forcing people to check closets or shopping malls for warmer accessories besides compelling farmers to delay cotton picking and wheat sowing. The city received 7.8mm rain last Wednesday while 2.1mm on Thursday marking arrival of the winter season leaving people looking for warmer ...
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Holy Prophet’s life beacon for whole of humanity
HAFIZABAD/Okara - Ulema at the District Peace Committee meeting resolved to shun their differences and to fully act upon the Quran and Sunnah to promote love, affection and unity to foil the evil designs of the enemy. They held the meeting in connection with Eid-i-Milad-un-Nabi. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Commissioner Naveed Shahzad Mirza was attended among others by heads of ...
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Workshop on income tax returns held
GUJRAT - An awareness and training workshop on facilitating the salaried class in the filing of income tax returns through a an FBR mobile application was held here at Hafiz Hayat Campus of the University of Gujrat on Thursday. The day-long workshop was organized by Social Entrepreneurial Society of Faculty of Management & Administrative Sciences (FMAS) and was aimed at training the UoG ...
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Widespread rain turns weather cold
SIALKOT - Widespread heavy rain made the weather cold here on Thursday. The cold winds also blew continuously which dropped the mercury 16 degrees Celsius. Heavy rain today lashed out the entire Sialkot region here. Rain began early in this morning which remained continued intermittently the whole day with the loud thunder of the dark clouds today. All the urban and rural low-lying areas were ...
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Pakistan has highest incidence of breast cancer in Asia
Okara - A seminar on ‘Breast Cancer’ was organized in collaboration with Pink Ribbon Pakistan (PRP) for the female faculty of the University of Okara (UO). Dr Maryam Liaqat, Assistant Professor of Physics, delivered a lecture on cancer prevention and cure. Dr Maryam apprised the audience of different techniques of breast examination and precautionary measures to avoid the killing ...
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Int’l Seerat Symposium promotes peace, harmony
Sargodha - Sargodha University on Thursday organised a day-long ‘International Seerat Symposium’ in connection with Eid Miladun Nabi (SAWW). The symposium was aimed at promoting peace, harmony and friendly relations between various segments of the society by emphasizing different aspects of the life of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SAW). It was organised by the Department of Islamic ...
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Open court swarmed with complainants
Noor Pur Thal - Khushab Deputy Commissioner Mussarat Jabeen and District Police Officer Rana Shoaib Mehmood held an open court at Noor Pur Thal. A large number of people turned up with a host of complaints. On the occasion, both the DC and DPO listened to the complaints of the masses and issued on the spot orders for resolution of the problems. Speaking to the audience ,both the ...
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Woman, daughter killed in accident
Hafizabad - A young woman and her infant daughter were killed on-the-spot while her husband and another were seriously injured when a tractor-trolley hit their bike near Chak Mauloo. According to rescue source, clerk of DC office Mehr Imdadullah along with his wife Saima, 18-month-old daughter Iqra and niece was on way to Hafizabad on the bike. Near Chak Mauloo, a recklessly driven ...
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Journalists thrashed by mills owner, accomplices
SIALKOT - A Daska based journalist and his cameraman were beaten by the owners and employees of a local flour mill in Daska. According to the FIR, Rana Ghulam Mustafa, a reporter of ARY News Channel, and cameraman Irfan went to the said rice mills in Daska for getting the version of the millers regarding the shortage of the flour in Daska. After seeing the journalist, mills’ owner Abdul ...
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285 canal state land retrieved
GUJRANWALA - An anti-corruption team retrieved 285 Kanal state land from land mafia. Influential land grabbers have occupied 69 kanal land of irrigation department at Chatha Dad and 216 kanal land located at Nanwana, Maumura, Kaleki etc for the last many years. After receiving the complaints, anti corruption authorities directed the circle officer Hafizabad for strict action against the land ...
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Robberies, thefts afoot amidst police claims
Hafizabad/Gujranwala - Amidst police claims, a trader of Jalalpur Bhattian was deprived of cell phones and LCDs while two other villagers lost their bikes at two different places. According to police source, unidentified burglars broken into the shop of Parvaiz Akhtar in Sadoki Bazar Jalalpur Bhattian and made off with cell phones and LCDs worth Rs. one lakh. Gul Nawaz son of Nasrullah of Kolo ...
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Dog bite takes life
Hafizabad - A villager of Thatha Jahad Amirewala died due to dog bite. According to villager, Iftikhar Ahmad was on way to his residence when a pye-dog bit him and received serious injuries as a result of which he was shifted to the hospital but he could not survive. Of late, dog bite incidents in the district have been increased and the ...
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Local holiday on 9th
SIALKOT - The district administration has announced a local holiday on November 9,2019 in Sialkot district on the birthday of Allama Iqbal, the son of soil of Sialkot and the Poet of The East. Sialkot DC has issued the formal official notification. DC Umer Sher Chatta told that all the offices of the govt departments and all the ...
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Locusts attack damages ready cotton crop in Muzaffargarh
MUZFFARGARH - Growers and farmers have feared huge losses due to large scale devastation caused by locusts attack to ready cotton crop in various areas of the district. The agricultural experts pointed out that locusts have migrated from Cholistan Desert and Thal Desert and have attacked large area in Tehsil Jatoi. The awareness teams from agriculture department are visiting the affected areas ...
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SIAL announces world class facilities for Sikh yatrees
SIALKOT - The management of Sialkot International Airport has announced provision of world class aviation facilities to visiting Sikh Yatrees from world over for participating in the Kartarpur Corridor project opening ceremony scheduled to be held at Kartarpur on November 9,2019 here. The participants were told that around 100,000 Sikh Yatrees are expected to attend the launching ...
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15 wedding guests injured in bus plunge
SAMBRIAL - Fifteen persons including 10 women were injured when a bus, carrying wedding guests, plunged into Upper Chenab Canal (UCC) near village Malkhaanwala, Sambrial tehsil here. According to rescue and police sources, the bus was going to a local marriage hall in Sambrial city after carrying wedding guests (Baraat) from village Kang. The driver lost control of the vehicle due to speeding and ...
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DNA samples of 57 train fire victims sent to forensic lab for identification
RAHIM YAR KHAN - Forensic experts in Lahore was on Saturday supplied with DNA samples of 57 unidentified victims - who had lost their lives in tragic train fire incident near Rahim Yar Khan on Thursday - for their identifications, the process which hospital officials claim would take ten days. Moreover, two injured persons have been discharged from the Sheikh Zayed Hospital after their ...
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Arrangements for Thal Desert rally fine-tuned
MUZFFARGARH - A high-level meeting here on Saturday reviewed and finalised arrangements for the 4th Thal Desert Rally to be started by November 15, under Punjab Tourism Development Corporation and District Administration Muzaffargarh. It desert rally will be held at That Desert near Head Mohammedwala from November 15 to 17 at a 180km long track. Deputy Commissioner Ali Shehzad presided over ...
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Intra-schools contests enthral students
NOORPUR THAL - The District Education Department Khushab organised annual Prime Minister Sports Competitions here the other day. The event was attended by a large number of sports lovers from different areas of Khushab district. Students of government elementary and secondary schools participated in sports competitions. According to district sports focal person Abid Hussain Bhatti, approximately ...
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Blood samples of relatives being collected
RAHIM YAR KHAN - The process of identification of the people died in the train fire has been continued at Shaikh Zayed Hospital here. The hospital administration has set up a camp for the family members of the deceased to collect their DNA samples for identification of the dead bodies, most of which were unlikely to be identified due to severe burns. The hospital has sent the DNA samples of 57 ...
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