Tag: Granted

Lahore - Pakistan National Commission for UNESCO has approved Punjab University's (PU) project proposal "Sui-Vihar Excavations and Archaeological Reconnaissance of Southern Punjab" today, amounting to US$ 26000 under the participation programme 2010-2011. The project has to be completed by the end of current year. The field work around the unique Sui-Vihar shrine would unleash various facets of Buddhism and particularly Mahayana cult.
Ghandhara Buddhist art has its own

LAHORE - Following the two-year long struggle, the unification bloc in the Punjab Assembly has finally been granted an independent status when the speaker allocated the bloc separate seats in the House on Tuesday. A Punjab Assembly source told Pakistan Today that Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal used his powers under the rule 2 of Chapter 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Assembly and allocated separate seats to the PML-Q dissidents who proved their majority in the Punjab Assembly against

Lawyers representing Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray have won an extra court hearing to ask for medical items found in the late star's bedroom to undergo vigorous testing as they battle to clear the physician's name.
The medic has pleaded not guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter following the singer's tragic death last year and he is expected to go on trial in 2011. A coroner ruled Jackson died of cardiac arrest brought on by an overdose of anaesthetic Propofol,

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

KARACHI: A Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre medico-legal officer, accused of raping a trainee nurse, was granted bail against a surety bond of Rs 200,000 by sessions court on Friday.
Abdul Jabbar Memon, who was removed from service after the alleged offence, was booked for raping and then attempting to murder a student of the JPMC nursing school in the residential area of the hospital on July 13. Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Razzaq pronounced the order