Tag: Khanewal

Poverty-stricken couple commits suicide in Khanewal

A poverty-hit couple, also parents of two children committed suicide by jumping in front of a moving train on Tuesday. Afzal and his wife...

Meer Baaz made PTI Khanewal Youth Wing SVP

Meer Baaz Jatala has been made PTI Khanewal District Youth Wing senior vice president through a notification by PTI Youth Wing Multan divisional General...

Khanewal to host PFF Referees Course

Khanewal will host Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Talent Acceleration Referee’s Course from January 20-24. Punjab Football Association (PFA), with the collaboration of PFF,...

‘No you don’t!’

A man allegedly trying to sexually harass a seven-year-old girl was arrested in Icchra on Tuesday. Police said a tailor identified as Imran hailing...

4 cops killed

Four constables of Justice Qasim Khan’s squad were gunned down by unidentified assailants on Multan-Khanewal Road on Thursday. Kabeerwala DSP Mian Tanweer said four...

13 die in Khanewal after consuming poisonous liquor

Thirteen people died in Khanewal district on Thursday after consuming toxic liquor in the districts chak no 80/10R, Pirowal area. Per details, the incident occurred...

Basketball tournament begins at Khanewal

KHANEWAL - The All-Punjab Young Five Floodlight Basketball Tournament started at Khanewal here the other day. The tournament will continue till April 17 and a total 18 teams of districts are participating in it. The opening match was played between Young Five Club and BUT club.
The Punjab Basketball Association has appointed officials for the tournament. Tasawar Hussain is serving as coach and Abdul Malik, Usman Paracha and Hashir are table officials. DCO Khanewal Rashid Mehmood

Two Khanewal girls in national cricket team

KHANEWAL - Two brilliant cricketers from Khanewal were included in the national cricket women's team of Pakistan for the tour of Sri Lanka. Sana Gulzar and Samaim Adeeb, both from Khanewal, were included in the national women's cricket team. The national women's cricket team is touring Sri Lanks in May, 2011.
These players are busy in practice at the camp in the LCCA ground Lahore. All the sports circles of Khanewal have appreciated the players and declared it as an honour for

Media workshop held in Khanewal

KHANEWAL - One-day workshop for media professionals was held here in a local hotel to create awareness of the catastrophic situation and widespread destruction caused by the floods in the country. The workshop was organised by the provincial gender education team (PGET). Moneeza Hashmi and famous writer/poet Asghar Nadeem Syed were speakers and presenters on this occasion. They said that the flood-affected people in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan still need help in

Rs 38m to be spent on 14 Khanewal projects

KHANEWAL - DCO Rashid Mehmood has said that Rs 38 million will be spent on 14 different development projects of roads, schools and hostels. While presiding over a meeting of the district development committee held in the committee room of the DCO office, he said 14 development schemes and been reviewed on technical and financial grounds.
He added Rs 38 million would be spent on these projects in the light of the direction of the Punjab chief minister. The meeting was attended by

‘Withdraw cases against Khanewal tenants’

LAHORE - Aman Inquilabi Ittehad, consisting of a four-party alliance, held a protest at Charing Cross on Friday, expressing concern at the registration of cases in Khanewal against hundreds of tenants under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The tenants had participated in a march to Lahore to press their demand for ownership rights of the land that they had been cultivating for decades. The protestors said that while the administration had refrained from using force to prevent the tenants'