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LAHORE: As the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) are criticising the Punjab government for introducing the board of governors (BoG) and teachers and students are protesting on roads, the future of introducing four-year BS Hons programmes in 26 public-sector colleges of Punjab remains a big challenge for the besieged Punjab government, Pakistan Today has learnt.
As a last ditch effort to calm down the protesting teachers and students who

LAHORE: Pakistan would continue its moral, political and diplomatic support to Kashmiris for their right to autonomy, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid Like-Minded Group Punjab Vice President Amer Reza Niall and Central Vice President Ubaid Kamran said on Monday in a press conference. Niall referred to gross human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) and said that former Indian Northern Command GOC Lieutenant General HS Panag was compared with Milosevic of Bosnia for butchering

LAHORE: The Service to Humanity award given to former Prime Minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto was, in fact, acknowledgement of her services for the humanity. Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira here on Monday said the award given to her by the international conference of Asian Political Parties in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, showed the international community acknowledged the services of PPP leadership for democracy and humanity. While talking to various delegations of Pakistan

LAHORE: Punjab Labour Minister Ashraf Sohna said on Monday that official records point to the purchase committee and a private company Mediquip in the financial embezzlement of Rs 30 million in the purchase of angiography machine for Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital. Giving details of the corruption scandal at a press briefing at his official residence, Sohna said 'high prices' were paid for angiography machines, which were supplied by the same medical company to the Punjab

LAHORE: Former state minister for defence Major (r) Habibullah Warraich's bail petition was rejected on Monday by a banking court while former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi was sent on a five-day physical remand to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab.
According to details, Warraich claimed that he was not involved in selling land to the NICL and the FIA had already started recovering the embezzled money. After hearing arguments, the

LAHORE: Dozens of nurses from Saeeda Waheed Nursing College protested on Monday in front of PML-N Chief Nawaz Sharif's Jati Umra residence against the non payment of their monthly stipend. Scores of nurses came out on the Raiwind Road protesting against the suspension of their stipend for over four months and raised slogans against the administration and blocked the road for two hours.
\Begum Kalsum Nawaz talked to their delegation and assured them of fulfilling their demands

LAHORE: The Holy Prophet (PBUH) had awarded the death penalty to 20 people committing blasphemy, former Lahore High Court (LHC) chief justice (CJ) Mian Nazir Akhtar claimed on Monday. He made these remarks while addressing a lecture at the Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan (JAP) Central Secretariat. Akhtar said that the blasphemy case was a serious matter and people committing blasphemy were awarded the death plenty during the Holy Prophet's era.
The former LHC CJ informed the

LAHORE: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Chief Syed Munawar Hassan on Monday said that the rulers at the centre and in the provinces had agreed on the levy of the RGST under the US dictations as both were in the run to prove their obedience to Washington.
He said this while talking to media at Mansoora after addressing the JI central workshop. He said Opposition's stance against Reformed General Sale Tax (RGST) was only to befool the masses and if it was sincere to the people, it should

LAHORE: Provincial Planning and Development Board Chairman Javed Aslam has directed the Communication and works (C&W) department to complete the construction of Punjab University's (PU) court complex near Jhelum within next four months. He was presiding over a meeting at the site of newly proposed PU campus located at 10-kilometers on the GT road from Jhelum on Monday.
PU Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran, Rawalpindi Division Commissioner Zahid Saeed, Education and

LAHORE: The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA), which met here on Monday under the chairmanship of its President Prof Dr Muhammad Saeed Akhtar in varsity Executive Club, demanded the varsity administration to undertake strict disciplinary action against Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT) activists.
The association also expressed its solidarity with Superintendent Hostel No. 15 Sardar Asghar Iqbal, with whom the IJT activists had recently misbehaved. PUASA also demanded

LAHORE: Art lovers and interested viewers were attracted to Ejaz Art Gallery on Saturday to view the paintings of students from National College of Arts (NCA). This was the first exhibition by the young artists who were excited to have their work displayed and at being surrounded by media and other viewers.
Aqueel Abbas-whose paintings were perhaps the most expressive- had painted an aerial view of children who were apparently smiling but hidden deep inside their simple,

LAHORE: The self-proclaimed "Royals of Lahore" would face the people's wrath in the upcoming local government (LG) elections for making anti-masses decisions, Federal Law Minister Senator Dr Babar Awan said on Sunday.
He made these remarks while addressing Pakistan People's Party (PPP) workers at Muslim Town. Party leaders and workers were present in large numbers on the occasion and chanted slogans in the party's favour. Awan said that he had failed to understand why the

LAHORE: CNG could not be found in most areas of Lahore on Sunday, as CNG stations were closed owing to low gas pressures. A large number of motorists were seen roaming from one CNG station to another and the commodity was not even available in Johar Town, a known hub of CNG stations, Garden Town, Model Town, Allama Iqbal Town, Faisal Town, Muslim Town, Canal View, Gulberg, Shadman and Mughalpura.
Stations selling CNG had long car queues lined up, as commuters rushed to fill

LAHORE: Speakers at PINA's seminar on "Post WikiLeaks Pakistan" held on Sunday recommended the Nobel Prize for Wikileaks owner Julian Assange for courageously unveiling truth about Pakistani and world leaders. The seminar's participants agreed that Islamic countries leaders were exposed after the revelations made by Wikileaks and there was a need to development mutual relations and brotherhood amongst all Islamic countries.
They stressed upon the need for reviewing national

LAHORE: Seven people received burn injuries when a fire erupted due to gas leakage in a LPG cylinder shop at the Bund Road in Islampura Police Station precincts on Sunday. According to Edhi officials, the fire erupted in a LPG cylinders shop owned by Rana Mudassar at the Bund Road near the Taj Company in Islampura Police Station precincts when someone threw a burnt cigarette near a leaking gas cylinder. As a result, the cylinder exploded and the fire engulfed whole shop.
After

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer has said that the 'Ashiyana' Housing Scheme will prove to be another scam of the Punjab government. He said this while talking to journalists after the prize distribution ceremony of 27th Governor's Golf Cup tournament here on Sunday Accusing the Punjab government of exploiting the poor masses, Taseer said Rs 900 was being 'extorted' from the needy in the name of "Ashiyana" scheme, which was tantamount to robbing people.
The Punjab governor

LAHORE: Four new high security prisons and barracks are being built across jails in Punjab, one each in Lahore, Rawalpindi, Mianwali and Sahiwal at a total cost of Rs 1935.189 million. Inspector General of Prisons Punjab Kokab Nadeem Warraich told APP here on Sunday that in addition to high security prisons, nine more new jails were also being built in various districts at a cost of Rs 6,594.337 million.
He said that new district jails were being built in Okara, Pakpattan,