Lahore

LAHORE -
Interferon injections and medicines for hepatitis C treatment were provided to government hospitals last week according to their treatment load, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad said on Thursday.
He said that since treatment of hepatitis C was very expensive and time-consuming, hospital administrations have been directed to ensure completion of a six-month treatment course of patients who were already under treatment.
Fawad said that approval has

LAHORE - The South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) held a seminar on Thursday to mark the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's (SAARC) silver jubilee.
Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri said that during former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf's government, talks with India were going in the right direction. The Sir Creek issue was about to be resolved but the 2008 general elections changed the entire scenario.
He said those people who

LAHORE - Factory Area and Defence Police on Thursday claimed to have arrested 10 members of the Zafar Iqbal, Sadriq Masih and Zeeshan alias Shani dacoit gangs including their ringleaders and recovered Rs 0.375 million in cash, four motorcycles, six cellular phones, five pistols and bullets from their procession.
The accused were identified as Sadriq Masih, Irfan Masih, Yasir Shahbaz, Aneel Ashraf Masih, Muhammad Asif, Zafar Javed, Nadeem, Zafar Hussain, Muhammad Ashfaq, Zeeshan

LAHORE - Private-sector school campuses located in residential areas, including posh housing societies, are causing traffic problems and disturbing local residents, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The mushroom growth of private academies and tuition centres also has a role in creating traffic mess and a security risk for residents. A majority of such educational institutions shared their walls with houses and residents had to limit their mobility when the schools and academies opened

LAHORE - The Pakistani flag denotes white colour for minorities and Islam also orders respect for their rights, Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer said this while addressing the Christian community.
Islam does not promote violence towards minorities rather it advocates the human rights, he said adding, that is why, he tried to help Asiya Bibi, after which he was made the subject of various fatwas.
He said those who were putting out fatwas were the same people who did the same

LAHORE - A delegation of students from Balochistan, Sindh and Kyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday visited the Government College University Lahore. The 32-member delegation of position holders from the three provinces arrived in Punjab on a one-week visit under the chief minister's programme "Inter-Provincial Tour of Talented Students."
The students, during their visit at GCU, said they were inspired by the noble laureate Prof Dr Abdus Salam. The Nobel Prize remained the centre of

LAHORE - Cecil Jawed is busy shopping around Liberty Market for December 25. She prances around from shop to shop trying to see which dress she would like to wear, or haggle around with shopkeepers who she thinks are charging too much.
Certainly December is a busy and chaotic month for markets. With the wedding season going on, new years approaching and now Christmas just a day away, the market is filled with people. A small hidden stall where export quality clothes hang on racks

LAHORE: In the shadow of controversies, 11-flour Park & Ride Plaza was opened at Main Boulevard, Gulberg near Liberty roundabout adjacent to United Christian Hospital on Wednesday.
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated the plaza with publicity blitz but failed to fulfill his commitment to construct other parking plazas at 9 places including Nila Gumbad, Sheranwala, Shadman, Moon Market and Macleod Road. First controversy started when Park & Ride Plaza was preferred to

LAHORE: I can't cook, there is no gas, bring dinner on your way back home," said housewives to their husbands, as low gas pressure in the city for domestic users on Wednesday made it impossible to cook food. Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) users faced another day will no or low gas pressure. CNG stations were also deprived of gas and people had to run their vehicles on petrol.
City areas including Iqbal Town, Multan Road, Township, Model Town, Gulberg, Shadman,

LAHORE: Full bench of Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday reinstated two Punjab University Center for High Energy of Physics (CHEP) assistant professors that were sacked by the varsity administration on the charges of plagiarism. Dr Maqsood Ahmad and Dr Alam Saeed are among the restored teachers whereas two other teachers Sohail Afzal and Rasheed Ahmad, who were also sacked, still wait for the Lahore High Court judgment.
The bench headed by SC Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

LAHORE: Eight amendment bills on government departments were approved in a meeting of the Punjab Cabinet presided over by Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif at the CM Secretariat here on Wednesday. The bills were with regard to the transfer of ministry affairs to provinces stipulated by the 18th constitutional amendment. A Cabinet Committee for eliminating corruption from Punjab was constituted by the CM tasked with formulating recommendations on the matter. The recommendations

LAHORE: Pakistan Agriculture Scientists Association (PASA) President and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Jamshed Iqbal Cheema on Wednesday said it was the right of the people to have inexpensive flour, sugar, fruits, vegetables and other grocery items. Addressing a meeting of the Agriculture Scientists Association, he regretted that Pakistan was an agricultural country but agricultural products were beyond the reach of the common man. He said PML-N, on coming to power,

LAHORE: Punjab Population Welfare Provincial Minister Neelam Jabbar has said that huge funds are being spent on social protection and economic development of women while new projects would be launched for their welfare under Gender Reform Action Plan.
Addressing the office bearers of a local Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), she said that those who dedicated their lives and resources to social welfare and betterment of women were assets to the society and government would

LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) delivered bills in majority of the city areas only two days before the due date, making it difficult for the consumers to pay bills in time, the consumers told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Consumers criticised the late delivery of utility bills and demanded from the company to extend the due date, as it was not possible for them to pay bills over such a short notice. The resident of different areas; Multan Road, Township, College

LAHORE: Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Wednesday converted the removal of a sweeper of Quaid-e-Azam Library into compulsory retirement, while hearing a Punjab government appeal against his restoration by Punjab Service Tribunal. Appearing before the court on behalf of the Punjab government, Advocate Salma submitted that sweeper Riaz Masih was removed from service on September 05, 2006 after long absence of two years from service. She said the service tribunal restored him against

LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has placed the name of Jarranwala SP Mansoor-ul-Haq Rana, Rana Qaisar Nazir, Mohsan Abbassi, Ahsan Abbssi, Hafiz Usman Yousaf, Muhammad Amin Abbasi, Rana Nazir Ahmad, Rana Muhammad Anwar, Anwar-ul-Haq Rana on the Exit Control List. Accused are nominated in Kanal Motors scam in which Rs 1.2 billion has been embezzled. NAB authorities have also recommended initiating appropriate action against Major Hameed Rana involved in said fraud.