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LAHORE: American Ambassador Cameron Munter ventured out on Sunday for a breakfast at an eatery in the cantonment area. The press was briefed beforehand of the Ambassador's morning adventure. So it was perhaps for damage control after the diplomatic chaos unleashed by the Wikileaks that Munter took to sipping from a glass of lassi during his trip to Lahore. Munter, accompanied by his wife and other US Consulate delegates, had breakfast at Zakir Tikka House were he ate halwa poori,

LAHORE: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Resident Association Elections (2010-2013) were held on Sunday and Rohail Ikram Ul Haq was elected unopposed as its new president.
Rohail vowed to play the role of the bridge between DHA residents and administration to help resolve all community problems without any delay. Election Commissioner Group Captain Tayyab Siddiqui accompanied by Arshad Ali Mirza and Prof Mubasher Gora announced the election of the new governing body and

LAHORE: Abdul Manan, a journalist who was tortured in the Punjab University, said Muslim Town Police have registered a case against Rana Qurban and Law College students who tortured and tried to kidnap him but the PU administration and Director Public Relation Khawaja Tahir was avoiding taking disciplinary action against them.
Journalists on Sunday said they will protest today (Monday) at the varsity against PU administration for not taking disciplinary action against ten

LAHORE: Sugar traders and vendors in the city have started plundering customers by mixing substandard sugar with good quality sugar and selling this at higher rates, customers told Pakistan Today on Sunday.
Customers said traders were selling substandard sugar at Rs 90 per kg. The government has fixed imported sugar's price at Rs 72 per kg but its quality and sweetness is far low than the locally produced sugar, which is sold in the market for Rs 90 per kg.
The traders have

LAHORE: Young Doctors Association (YDA) have demanded the Chief Minister Punjab to announce a special pay package for doctors and raise the salary of a medical officer to Rs.80000 and a senior registrar to Rs.150,000 to stop the brain drain of doctors.
The office bearers of YDA Dr. Rana Sohail, Dr. Salman Kazmi, Dr. Talha Sherwani Dr. Khalid Idrees have stated that Pakistani doctors are the least paid among all the doctors in the subcontinent.
If a special salary package

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has directed that one dish law and the observance of fixed timings should be ensured strictly at the weddings.
CM, while presiding over a meeting, said that action should be taken against the marriage hall owners for violating fixed timings and should be sent behind the bars. He said that the action should be taken against the violators without discrimination and all articles of such halls should be confiscated.
He said

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced to set up model Sasta Bazaars in Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur for providing quality meat, fruits, vegetables and daily use items to the people at one place.
He directed Secretary Industries to submit a final plan with regard to setting up model Sasta bazaars within one week and the work should be started on the project immediately. "This project will be

LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) linemen still await the promised danger allowance worth Rs 5,000 per month, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Former LESCO chief executive officer (CEO) Azhar Iqbal had promised to pay Rs 5,000 per month as danger allowance to each lineman. The promise was made in April and Iqbal at Bakhtiar Labour Hall announced, "Linemen work under dangerous conditions and it is their right to get danger allowance and it has been approved at Rs 5,000 per

LAHORE: National Highways & Motorway Police (NHMP) Driving School has been declared as world best public-private road safety project and awarded the Gold Trophy by the Nestle council of Vevy Switzerland, IG NHMP Dr Wasim Kausar said in a press release issued on Sunday.
He said that a special ceremony has been held at PC Hotel, Lahore for the announcement of award. Inspector General NH&MP Dr Wasim Kauser, DIG Syed Ibne Hussain and MD Nestle Pakistan Ian J Donald attended the

LAHORE: Unexpectedly, high consumer count was witnessed at the Sunday Bazaars of the city and prices of vegetables and fruits decreased but it was yet another Sunday when customers could not get sugar due to its shortage. However, the price of chicken meat increased as compare to last week.
The chicken was sold for Rs 135 per kg thus an increase of Rs 7 per kg was seen. Last week, chicken meat was sold for Rs 128 per kg. The sales of chicken, vegetables and fruits remained

LAHORE: The City School, A Level Campus, Model Town, held its 4th annual play at the Alhamra Arts and Cultural Complex, Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore on December 2-3. The theatrical comedy "For My Bride Only", a write up by John J Wooten was described by the audience as hysterical and flabbergasting. The performance by young A Level students was appreciated by the crowd. Actors with their comedic timing and a crisp pace kept the audience intact for two hours.
Ansub Nadeem as Lou,

LAHORE: Pakistan Student Federation (PSF) Okara division staged a sit-in protest at the door of the Governor of the Punjab at Mall Road against their own Labor Minister Ashraf Khan Sohna.
Members of PSF Okara wing were seen blocking the road by lying down on the street in front of the cars on the main gate of the Governor's house at Mall Road. The protest participants claimed that the Minister of Labor Ashraf Khan Sohna who belongs from the same party (Pakistan people party) had

LAHORE: Twenty eight photographs, all in colour, hang on the walls of the Nairang Gallery, revealing the beauty of arid, eroded, Baluchistan. Mariam Mehmood's photo exhibition was more than the usual art exhibition. It was by an amateur photographer's first exhibition about a place that not many have seen.
Ormara, which is an old coastal town on the Makran Coast, is a four hour drive from Karachi and falls between Karachi and Gwadar. "I saw many things as we drove to Ormara - the

LAHORE: Like a cunning lover, the winter comes teasing you," quotes Saeed Ahmed, a veteran journalist and playwright, from his recently written piece on the season describing it as a beloved
who does not appear at the time that she is supposed to; sometimes it is early, sometimes it is late. On a different level he draws a parallel between the winters and their effect upon the local 'lunda market'. He mentions two of the most significant and well known Urdu short stories 'Over

LAHORE: Victoria Girls High School is a government girl's school inside the walled city of Lahore and is housed in a nineteenth century Sikh period haveli of Naunihal Singh, the son of Maharajah Ranjeet Singh.
The haveli is one of the few remaining royal residences from the Sikh period in Lahore. It is an intact structure of over forty rooms with most elements of its original ornamentation preserved on the two main elevations and the interior courtyard facades.
The most

LAHORE: The Lums Flood Relief Drive Hi-Tea was a fund raising event hosted by the students and faculty of the Lahore University of Management Sciences and included the Vice Chancellor, faculty members, CEOs of prominent companies, and members of the Lums Flood Relief Drive council.
Lums Flood Relief Drive is a joint initiative by the students and faculty members of LUMS, with an aim to rehabilitate, educate and to empower the flood affectees on a long term basis. Work has already

LAHORE: Provinces would be benefited by the implementation of Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST), and issues with the tax can be negotiated, Lahore School of Economics Rector Dr. Shahid Amjad Chaudhary said on its Eighth Convocation held at the Burki Campus on Saturday.
The rector said the RGST issue had been politicized because the lion's share would end up with Punjab - but the matter could be resolved. The Convocation Ceremony was held to confer degrees to around 1000 students