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LAHORE - The Lahore Bar Association's (LBA) election board has announced the final list of candidates contesting the annual election. According to the list, Abdul Latif Hanjra, MR Awan, Shahzad Hassan Sheikh and Zia-ud-Din Ansari are candidates for the seat of president.
Abdul Rehman Gondal, Ali Nawaz Butt, Arif Mahmood Chaudhry Azfar Kamal Kharal, Chaudhry Liaqat Ali Pannu, Fida Hussain Mata and Malik Sultan Ahmad are candidates for two seats of vice president. Mian Hafeez and

LAHORE - As many as four people received minor injures as the CNG-gas cylinder exploded in the precincts of the Munawah police precincts here on Wednesday.
According to Edhi officials, four men including Abbas, Umar Hayyat and Shehzad while the fourth remained unidentified, sustained injuries when a CNG cylinder exploded with a bang. The CNG cylinder exploded when the cylinder being filled at local CNG gas station.
An Edhi ambulance reached at the spot instantly and

LAHORE - Valuables worth millions of rupees were reduced to ashes when fire broke out at four different places including a local garments factory and the Shah Alam Market on Sunday. Fire erupted at a local garments factory located at the main Ferozepur Road near the Awan Market due to short-circuit.
Flames engulfed three floors of the four-floor garments manufacturing unit and reduced valuables worth millions of rupees to ashes. Three labourers fell unconscious due to heavy smoke

ABUJA - A bomb ripped through a crowded market on the edge of an Abuja military barracks on New Year's Eve killing four people and wounding 26 others, 11 of them seriously, the defence minister said Saturday.
"As at this moment, four people died from the blast, including a pregnant woman. Twenty-six others were injured, 11 of them seriously," Adetokunbo Kayode said at the scene of the explosion. It is the second such attack in three months in the Nigerian capital and the first

QUETTA - The Balochistan Levies on Thursday found four bodies of missing persons in Kechh district's border town of Mund, some 500 kilometres west of Quetta.
According to police, the levies got a tip off after which they searched and found four bodies Mund, close to Iranian border. They were taken to a local levy station to be dispatched to Turbat District Headquarter Hospital for autopsy.
The men had been shot with a pistol at pointblank range in the heads and all bodies

LAHORE - Four Brothers Group Pakistan has achieved International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 9001:2008 certification. The certification is another demonstration of Four Brothers Group Pakistan's commitment to meeting globally recognized quality management system requirements. "Achieving ISO 9001:2008 Certification is an important milestone for our corporation.
This certification illustrates to farmers and those in the field of agrochemicals our strong commitment to

COPENHAGEN - The Danish intelligence agency PET said on Wednesday it had arrested four men suspected of preparing a terror attack against the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which published the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
"These arrests have successfully stopped an imminent terror attack, where several of the suspects ... were going to force their way into the (building which houses the Jyllands-Posten newspaper) in Copenhagen and kill as many people as possible," PET head

MOSUL - Two suicide bombers on Wednesday killed four policemen in a police station in the northern city of Mosul, including an officer who oversaw a deadly raid on militants, Iraqi security officials said. A third bomber was shot dead before setting off his explosives belt in the attack targeting Lieutenant Colonel Shamil Ahmed Oglah, who commanded the operation last week against an Al-Qaeda affiliate, a police officer said.
The early morning bombings killed Oglah and three other

LAHORE - The fourth injured in the liberty car racing accident on Tuesday, Kashif, died at the Services Hospital in the wee hours on Wednesday. The deceased are identified as Raja Tahir (27), Raja Umer (25), Umer Daraz (27) and Kashif (26), residents of the Habibullah Road Gharishahu.
Two cars met an accident on Tuesday during a race. A Cultus was toppled while overtaking the other car and five were injured, including two cousins Raja Umer and Raja Tahir, and were rushed to the

QUETTA - Another four bullet riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons were found in Quetta and Mastung districts on Sunday.
Police said two bodies were found near Killi Qambrani in the jurisdiction of Shalkot police station. The bodies were moved to Bolan Medical Complex Hospital where they were identified as Zubair Sarpara and Tariq.
In Mastung, police found two bodies from Dasht Bado area of the district. They were later identified as Sohbat Marri and Shadain Marri. The

KHOST - Four Turkish engineers working for a construction firm and their Afghan driver were kidnapped Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, a senior local official told AFP.
The men were abducted in the restive Paktia province as they travelled from a building site in Dand Wa Patan district, which borders Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, to provincial capital Gardez.
"Four Turkish engineers and their Afghan driver were kidnapped by unknown gunmen and have been taken away to an

LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Syed Asif Hashmi re-opened the Janki Devi Hospital on Friday after nearly four months. The 76-year-old maternity hospital was closed almost four months ago and all patients were discharged owing to a tussle between two groups of hospital employees and some renovation work as claimed by ETPB officials. Speaking on the occasion, Hashmi said that the hospital would be made an "exemplary" health establishment at par with other

FAISALABAD - Assistant Sub-Inspector Taj Muhammand was among the victims of a highway robbery by a gang of dacoits. The gang, who had waylaid a check post barrier, was busy in looting the passersby at Mohalla Kot Eidi, Cinema Road, Gojra when ASI Taj Mohammad on his motorcycle was also stopped by the gang.
The ASI, who is working as a PA to Toba Tek Singh District Police Officer (DPO), was going home after his duty. When he tried to resist the gang, they attacked him and severely

LAHORE: South Asia Partnership called for a second day of their conference, where several speakers discussed the issue of sexual harassment, while the event was uplifted by plays. The session began with a an Oath taking ceremony, anchored by Naeema Malik (SAP), where the members along with the change makers, this time from all four provinces, signed a banner and pledged that they would continue forwarding the cause of ending violence against women.
The 'We Can End Violence

QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead four policemen in an attack on their van in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, officials said.
The incident took place in Gard Gab area, in Noshki district 150 kilometres west of Quetta, local police official Abdul Salam told AFP. The assailants ambushed a police van bringing recruits from a police training college in Qalat, he said.
"Three police recruits were killed on the spot. Another died on the way to the hospital," he said, adding that two

QUETTA: A noted local trader belonging to the Shia community was killed along with his son and two bodyguards in Quetta on Thursday.
"Keeping in view past incidents and preliminary investigation, it appears to be an act of sectarian killing, however, a detailed probe will establish the cause of the murder," said Hamid Shakeel, Quetta operations deputy inspector general.
According to details, Haji Ali Akbar, his son Abdus Samad and two body guards were leaving for home after

PESHAWAR
At least four people were killed and another 22 injured in a bomb explosion in a mosque in Pishtakhara village in the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday. The explosion occurred soon after the Friday prayers at the mosque, Capital City Police Officer Liaqat Ali Khan told reporters.
Police officials said unidentified terrorists placed an explosives-packed piece of cloth near the shoe rack along the mosque's boundary wall. Soon after the explosion, senior police officials