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LAHORE: A large number of Christians celebrated the 150 years of service of the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church Nabha Road on Friday. The church was built in 1860 during the British era. Since that time, St Andrew's has been a witness to the Church at large by demonstrating that devotion in action is evangelical and lived faith brings grace to those in need. Thousands of people have worshipped at this church, and remark on the sense of family unity in the congregation.
The

LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC), headed by Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry, dismissed on Friday scores of petitions filed by 12 parliamentarians, challenging the authority and legality of the local commissions appointed by LHC's election tribunals to record statements of parties.
In its short order, the full bench held that the local commissions were constituted to assist the election tribunals and the Election Commission in the process of recording

LAHORE: The Supreme Court (SC) monitoring judge on Friday called a meeting of all presiding officers of accountability courts of Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Peshawar at the SC Building, Islamabad on December 11. Progress of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO)-related National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cases pending in accountability courts would be discussed in the meeting.
According to sources, attitude of judges having close relations with NRO beneficiaries would

LAHORE: Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC)'s door-to-door waste collection plan, scheduled to be launched by the end of December in municipal limit, is nothing more than a pipedream, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Plans regarding door-to-door waste collection in the city were activated in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2009 spearheaded by City District Government Lahore (CDGL) but all of them fell flat. "This time LWMC, powered by CDGL on the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz

LAHORE: Men beauty salons are gaining popularity in the city tempting youngsters to spend thousands of rupees per month in the name of beautifying themselves, Pakistan Today has learnt. The salons are also founding customers amongst middle income families proving to be an additional financial burden on them.
According to information available with Pakistan Today, studying in co-education institutions was forcing males to go to salons in large numbers while copying the hairstyles

LAHORE: A huge fire engulfed the Hafeez Centre, a major business plaza, on Thursday causing heavy damage and forcing shop owners to close their shops today (Friday).
The fire erupted due to short-circuiting at a computer shop located at the centre's second floor and reduced valuables worth millions of rupees to ashes within no time, government and rescue officials said. Five men including Shahbaz, Muhammad and Asif and two rescuers including Shahid Waheed and Abdul Aleem

LAHORE: Justice Ijaz Chaudhry took oath as the chief justice of the Lahore High Court on Thursday and started working after taking charge of his office.
Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer administered the oath to the new chief justice at a ceremony held at the Governor's House. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, judges of the Lahore High Court and senior lawyers attended the ceremony.
Former LHC CJ Khwaja

LAHORE: Increase in militancy and intolerance has threatened human rights in Pakistan, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Thursday. The HRCP, on the occasion of the World Human Rights Day on December 10, said that it was a time to reflect on the challenges and opportunities for realisation of human rights in the country. This year growing militancy, extremism and intolerance posed the main threat to people's rights.
Many of the old challenges to human rights

LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday summoned former director Haj Maj (r) Rao Shakeel Ahmad for December 20, during the hearing of an application filed by National Accountability Bureau (NAB), seeking
the cancellation of his exemption from appearing in court.
Earlier, court had exempted Rao Shakeel Ahmad from appearing in court during the trials of a reference filed against him as he was serving as DCO Khaniwal and he had to participate in several meetings in this

LAHORE: The launch ceremony of Peter Jacob's book titled 'Pakistan Ka Muqaddama Aqwam-e-Muttahida Mein' (Pakistan's case in the United Nations) was held on Thursday. The book has been published by the National Commission for Justice and Peace (JCJP). Khalid Ahmed, a senior political analyst and journalist was the chief guest of the event. Hussain Naqi and Irfan Mufti also attended the launch.
The book offers a unique discourse which took place in the Universal Periodic Review, on

LAHORE: Provincial and federal government departments observed International Anti-Corruption Day on Thursday and organised different events like walks, seminars and exhibitions on different platforms to create awareness against corruption among the general public.
Ob these occasions, government departments like Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and Anti-Corruption Establishment also issued their performance reports till Thursday. FIA

NEW YORK: Johnny Depp has been forced to promote his new movie with a crooked set of teeth because he hasn't yet found a dentist to remove the false set he wore for his role in the latest 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' film.
The Hollywood actor has spent the last few months filming 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and he has been wearing unsightly semi-permanent dentures for his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow.
But Depp failed to have the teeth removed before he

LAHORE: Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) convinced the students of Government Islamia College Civil Lines and MAO College that the Punjab Assembly was planning to abolish blasphemy law through a bill on Wednesday and forced them to participate in a protest which was actually against the establishment of Board of Governors (BoG).
Around two dozen teachers of Joint Action Committee (JAC) were arrested after around 400 students and teachers converted Charing Cross into a battle field from

LAHORE: Protest at the Punjab Assembly by the teachers and students of Joint Actions Committee resulted in damaged buses, injured protestors by the police's baton charge and the arrests of students and office bearers of Punjab Lecturers and Professors Union on Wednesday.
At least four buses were stoned and put to fire by the students in retaliation to the police baton charge. Dozens of teachers and students were arrested as they came close to the Punjab Assembly's main gate.

LAHORE: After every thirty minutes a group of four Daewoo buses are seen entering and leaving its terminal located at the Ferozepur Road near the Kalma Chowk congesting the traffic on the chowk while taking U turns to commute between its terminal and the workshop located opposite to its terminal.
While entering the city from the motorway the buses turn right from the canal bank on Maulana Shaukat Ali Road towards Jinnah Hospital and joins Usmania Road and Main Boulevard Garden

LAHORE: "Who can you trust if a traffic warden turns out to be a swindler, making good with your valuables including cash and mobile phone while charging you over traffic rules violation," said a truck driver Jahanzaib while talking to Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
HALT! TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Jahanzaib, a driver who works with Cargo United Goods and drives their truck (JU-7577) from Lahore to Karachi, said that late on Tuesday night he entered Lahore and was heading to wards his

LAHORE: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab President Chaudhry Imtiaz Safdar Warraich has said that the political climate in the province has changed and PPP will launch a massive public contact campaign after Moharram.
He said the PPP public contact move would prove a final nail in the opponents' coffin as the 'shallow castle' of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was in 'shambles' and there was a need to just push the first wall. He said that they would not tolerate any more