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LAHORE: All CNG stations would remain closed from 8am to 8pm daily besides a two-day closure in a week, Pakistan Today has learnt. The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Monday threatened to go on an all-out strike if the new gas load shedding schedule was implemented. Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) officials said that in order to facilitate domestic users, the company has decided to suspend gas supply to CNG stations on a daily basis from morning to evening. They

LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) administration is trying to cover up the recovery of 'private' material recovered from the office drawer of (former) Principal College of Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor Dr Iftikhar Baloch, already facing an inquiry over charges of harassing two female colleagues, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A varsity official privy to the ongoing investigation against Dr Iftikhar Baloch revealed to Pakistan Today that two dildos, condoms, nude

LAHORE: A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Monday scolded the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), Lahore administration for not giving passage rights through its roads and streets to residents of housing schemes located nearby, such as Punjab Cooperative Housing Society. The SC bench also sought the entire land and roads record including map of the DHA, Lahore today (Tuesday) for further proceedings.
During the case's hearing,

LAHORE: Lahore Police on Monday finally sought public help for recovering the snatched Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) tanker and issued the tanker's picture to journalists. According to a press release issued from the Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen's office, a WASA water tanker bearing registration number W-B-2, engine number 01053 and chassis number 47100199 was snatched by unidentified men from a WASA mini workshop located inside the Aziz Bhatti Town

LAHORE: Hearing of a petition challenging the pardon granted by President Asif Ali Zardari to Interior Minister Rehman Malik was adjourned to December 24 by a full bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday. Earlier, Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik had requested adjournment on behalf of the federation, citing Rehman's pending adjudication in Supreme Court as an excuse.
Barrister Farooq Hassan, representing the petitioner, opposed the request saying the government was

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab on Monday decided to observe a hunger strike in front of the Punjab Assembly to protest against inflation, lawlessness and Reformed General sales Tax (RGST) at 3 pm today. This was decided in a meeting held at the Punjab Secretariat of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf with PTI Punjab President Ahsen Rasheed in chair. The meeting was also attended by new party members Nadeem Abbas, Nasir Salim, and Rizwan Ahmed who joined PTI on Monday to

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Chaudhry Iftikhar Hussain on Monday sought comments of the ISI director general (DG) on media reports that the Jinnah Hospital Lahore's missing doctors was in the agency's custody. The judge observed, "Five months have passed since the news was published on July 17, 2010 that the ISI had picked Dr Ali Abdullah but until now the ISI has not issued any clarification about the news story." Justice Hussain was hearing a petition filed by Dr

LAHORE: An acute shortage of life-saving drug heparin, used in kidney dialysis, is causing a lot of inconvenience to patients, while profiteers were fleecing customers asking for the life-saving injection, Pakistan Today has learnt. According to an estimate, nearly 300 dialysis are performed across government hospitals in the provincial metropolis everyday and the use of heparin is vital in it. Mayo Hospital Urology Department Head Dr Nawaz Chugtai said that during dialysis blood

LAHORE: Encroachments near imambarghas have again raised their heads owing to non-implementation of Lahore District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ahad Cheema's orders, Pakistan Today has learnt. The encroachment mafia is back with a bang after a peaceful Ashura and this phenomenon was witnessed every year during Muharram.
Illegal extensions outside shops including food stalls, commercial vehicles, hand-pushed carts, tongas, building material and unauthorised parking stands were

LAHORE: Cart vendors along with locals of Nishter Town lodged a protest demonstration against the City Traffic Police for impounding dozens of donkey carts to make the main Ferozepur Road as 'model road', Pakistan Today has learnt on Sunday.
Chief Traffic Officer, on the complaint of cart vendors, has suspended two traffic wardens for allegedly thrashing cart owners before issuing tickets to them.
Cart vendors launched the protest outside the City District Office in Nishter

LAHORE: Six armed men stole two trucks of Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) from its mini workshop located in Gowala Colony in the Harbanspura police precincts on Sunday.
Harbanspura police has claimed to have recovered one of the two stolen trucks and arrested a truck lifter from Pindi Bhatian later on.
Armed men, equipped with sophisticated weapons, barged in the office of Aziz Bhatti Town Administration in Gowala Colony where WASA had also set-up its mini workshop and

LAHORE: Higher Education Commission (HEC) officials and some Punjab University (PU) faculty members have expressed concerns over protests against PU Vice Chancellor (VC) Dr Mujahid Kamran by pro-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) teachers and the Academic Group members on the issue of delegating Punjab Employees Efficiency, Discipline and Accountability (PEEDA) Act 2006 powers to the VC, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The officials and teachers said that they relied on the VC and his efforts for

LAHORE: Gas pressure to domestic users in many parts of the city remained low on Sunday irking citizens and the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has failed to ensure gas pressure for domestic users despite closing industries and CNG stations, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Domestic consumers in the Allama Iqbal Town, Johar Town, WAPDA Town, Township, Mughalpura, Mustafabad, Wahdat Road and other areas complained that low gas pressure was persisting since the last 15 days.

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday said that negotiations were being held with Korea and other countries for providing better transport facilities to the people of the province.
He was presiding over a meeting regarding the provision of transport facilities to the people and solid and waste management. He said, "In addition to provision of transport facilities, plans for parking plazas' construction are also being made." Lahore Transport Company

LAHORE: According to Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) reports power shortfall reduced to zero megawatts on Friday and Saturday but even then citizens experienced a one-hour power outage in the morning and one in the evening.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) gave an old excuse saying that only commercial feeders were shut down and domestic users on those feeders had to face load shedding. More than 50 percent feeders in the city were commercial and a large number of

LAHORE: Foggy conditions are likely to grip most parts of the Punjab with no rain and cold and dry weather is likely to continue in the coming days plus a fresh cold wave is likely to affect upper parts of the country, reports the Met Office.
Fog will continue to persist in Lahore, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Bahawalpur, Sukkar and Peshawar divisions, eastern and central Punjab and central Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, whereas hilly areas are also likely to remain under the grip of severe cold

LAHORE: The Tanzimul Saeed staged a protest against Federal Religious Affairs Minister Syed Hamid Saeed Kazmi's dismissal in front of the Lahore Press Club on Sunday.
The protesters alleged that people involved in assassination attempts on Kazmi were behind his removal. Khatam-e-Nubawat Foundation Chairman Allama Ashraf Saeedi said that the minister's dismissal was the federal government's worst decision.
He said that former science and technology minister Azam Sawti was