Lahore

LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday issued notice to the Lahore Cantonment Board, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and Defence Housing Authority (DHA) for January 14 to explain who has the authority to issue no objection certificates (NOC) for a new housing society in the city and what are the standard operating procedures (SOP) for obtaining NOCs. The court was hearing an appeal moved by the DHA on issue of passage through its limits, to the adjacent Punjab Cooperative Housing

LAHORE: The mystery of the circumstances in which, Mahd Faisal, student of C-1 of Aitchison College, was shot leading to his unfortunate demise failed to clear up on Friday. In the meanwhile, Investigation Police Cantt converted the attempt to murder case into a murder case after Mahd's demise at the Neurosurgery Ward of General Hospital late on Thursday night.
Case updates: Mahd Faisal was shot on December 20 by a friend, sources suggest, accidentally during a get-together with

LAHORE: Protests against Sui gas load shedding were witnessed in various parts of the city including Samanabad and Gawalmandi on Friday. Public expressed anger by chanting slogans against the authorities and protested that they had to go to the offices without having breakfast. Gawalmandi residents, in a protest against unscheduled gas load shedding, expressed grief over the 'inexcusable' blockage of gas and demanded swift restoration. They blocked the Nisbat road for an hour, burnt

LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Syed Asif Hashmi re-opened the Janki Devi Hospital on Friday after nearly four months. The 76-year-old maternity hospital was closed almost four months ago and all patients were discharged owing to a tussle between two groups of hospital employees and some renovation work as claimed by ETPB officials. Speaking on the occasion, Hashmi said that the hospital would be made an "exemplary" health establishment at par with other

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Friday granted approval to development projects worth billion of rupees for various districts of southern Punjab and other cities of the province. He was presiding over a meeting of divisional commissioners at chief minister's secretariat.
These projects are aimed at ensuring early availability of education, health, infrastructure, sewerage and other facilities to the masses. CM Senior Advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan

LAHORE: A Supreme Court (SC) full-bench consisting of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Jawad S Khawaja and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday reserved judgment in the Taxila church terrorism case on Friday.
The bench directed the Punjab Police inspector general (IGP) to take steps for investigating terrorist attacks by applying modern scientific methods and train investigators according to present needs. The bench was hearing appeals against death sentence awarded

LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) election tribunal on Friday imposed a Rs 10,000 fine on petitioner Rana Tariq for not producing evidence against Punjab Food Minister Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor whose educational degrees he has challenged. The
tribunal, during the petition's last hearing, had directed Tariq to produce evidences and witnesses before a local commission for recording their statements but he failed to do so. The petitioner, who contested the 2008 general elections

LAHORE: The inquiry committee probing into incident of an attempt of sexual assault on an on-duty nurse in the Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) ward of the Mayo Hospital found out that the accused doctor had only "manhandled" the nurse and no "indecent" activity took place, sources told Pakistan Today on Friday.
Dozens of nurses from the Mayo Hospital had gathered in front of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday to protest against alleged attempt of sexual assault on their colleague Ayesha

LAHORE - A large number of nurses from the Mayo Hospital School of Nursing protested in front of the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday against sexual harassment of their colleague during duty hours in the hospital.
The nurses chanted slogans against the administration for covering up the incident and stopping them from coming to the PA to register their protest. They demanded justice and registration of a first information report (FIR) against accused House Officer (HO) Muhammad

LAHORE - Heavy fog and cold weather was witnessed in Lahore on Thursday, as the minimum temperature fell to 2.5 degree Celsius. The Met Office has forecast cold weather with heavy fog in the coming days.
According to details, around 22 cars collided with each other in the heavy fog owing to which two people died while several others were injured. The bad weather also delayed foreign and domestic flights by five to seven hours.
An Allama Iqbal International Airport official

LAHORE - Around 4,000 commandos and 2,000 policemen will be on duty at and around churches in various areas of Lahore on Christmas Eve, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Thursday.
He was talking to a 15-member Christian delegation led by Reverend Dr Majeed Able. The CCPO said that Lahore Police has been put on high alert on Christmas Eve and police commandos had been deployed at all churches in the city and more than 4,000 policemen would be on duty

LAHORE - A large number of activists from the rebel group of the PPP on Thursday took out a rally against the failure of Zardari's government in solving the case of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
Activists, led by Sardar Hur Bokhari, Dr Zahid Akram and Nisar Safdar at the Regal Chowk, staged a sit-in before the Punjab Assembly. Holding banners, placards and party flags, the PPP workers condemned the way present government was treating the case and chanted slogans against the

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Thursday transferred eight judicial officers including six Punjab additional district and sessions judges and two senior civil judges.
The transferred additional district and sessions judges included Muhammad Younas Aziz from Ferozewala to Bhakkar, Muhammad Azam from Lahore to Dera Ghazi Khan, Mian Ghulam Hussain from Dera Ghazi Khan to Pattoki, Manzoor Hussain from Pattoki to Kabirwala, Sana Khan Attique

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) administration stopped Islami Jamiat-e-Taliba (IJT) activists to use the varsity premises to celebrate their Youm-e-Tasis at PU Hostel no 4 on Thursday.
PU deployed security guards at the two gates of the hostel while the IJT activists criticized the administration for not allowing them to hold the function. PU Resident Officer (RO) Dr Javed Sami said that IJT activist did not get a permission to hold this function so the administration just made

LAHORE - Former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi was handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Karachi on a three-day transit remand on Thursday by Duty Magistrate Ahtisham Sadiq.
The FIA Karachi two-member team consisting of Deputy Director Corporate Crime Circle (CCC) Altaf Hussain and Inspector CCC Muhammad Anwar reached Lahore and requested Niazi's transit remand from Sadiq.
The FIA Karachi team said that Niazi was wanted in

LAHORE - PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif's spouse Begum Kalsoom Nawaz has vowed to transform women into a dynamic force to guard Pakistan against all odds, driving out corrupt rulers from the country.
She was addressing a function regarding PML-N women's convention in connection with Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's birth anniversary at Alhamra on Thursday. The convention was attended by Begum Tehmina Doltana, Najma Hameed, Ishrat Sharaf, Begum Zakia Shahnawaz, Zaib Jafar and party

LAHORE - A full bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Punjab Housing secretary to crackdown on bogus housing societies which were looting people, as there was no mechanism to monitor such schemes.
The bench directed that Lahore Development Authority (LDA) must ensure, before sanctioning approval to any housing scheme, that its roads, passages, and thoroughfares gave access to public.
The court was hearing a human rights case moved by Azeemullah against Venice