Tag: Multan

Plane makes emergency landing after bird strike

MULTAN: An international airline plane made an emergency landing at Multan airport on Sunday after a bird struck the plane. According to airport sources, GF-789 was hit...

Man sets himself on fire over pir’s advice

MULTAN: A man allegedly set himself on fire over the advice of a spiritual healer on Friday in Multan. According to the details, the 50-year-old Haneef...

PTI reclaims PP-218 in Multan by-poll

Ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Malik Wasif Mazhar Raan on Sunday won the by-election on Multan’s PP-218 against Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Malik Arshad...

Four held for hate speech against PM Imran Khan

--Suspects apprehended at a mosque for spreading "sectarianism and bigotry" against govt --Two suspects uploaded videos of alleged hate speech on Facebook   MULTAN: Four suspects have been booked and...

Fake neurosurgeon arrested from Multan’s Nishtar Hospital

MULTAN: A fake doctor was arrested from Nishtar Hospital Multan on Sunday after which a total of seven quacks have been apprehended from the hospital...

Two ‘human traffickers’ held

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested two alleged human traffickers from Kamaliya and Burewala, a private media outlet reported Monday. According to reports, an FIA...

Three dead, two injured as car overturns in Sargodha

SARGODHA: At least three people were killed and two others critically injured when a car overturned in the Dharema area of the city. According to rescue officials,...

Gas leakage accidents kill two in Multan, injure two in Sialkot

MULTAN: Two people died from suffocation due to gas leakage in Multan on Friday. According to sources, the deceased were domestic helpers at the farm...

Multan shopkeepers confront authorities during anti-encroachment drive

MULTAN: Shop owners in Multan confronted authorities during an anti-encroachment operation in the city. Officials were carrying out an anti-encroachment operations in the the city's...

Men who looted millions posing as NAB officers arrested

ISLAMABAD: Two men who allegedly took millions from people, government officials and private organisations in Bahawalpur while posing as officers of the National Accountability...

Zia Rasheed claims to be Pakistan’s tallest man

MULTAN: 23-year-old Zia Rasheed has claimed that he is the new tallest man in the country, adding that he was getting taekwondo training for...

Motorway Police officer dies while saving lives

--Nine members of a family, including women and children, killed in a head-on collision MULTAN: Motorway Police (Central Zone) Patrol Officer Muhammad Saeed on Sunday embraced martyrdom...

Rawalpindi, Lahore Whites to play National T20 Cup final

MULTAN: Rawalpindi and Lahore Whites have qualified for the final match of the National T20 Cup which will be played on Tuesday. Lahore Whites beat...

Water arsenic level in Multan five times higher than permissible

MULTAN: The World Health Organisation has established 10 micrograms per litre as the permissible concentration in drinking water while Multan district is stated to have...

Nishtar Hospital MS, others booked for violating PPRA rules

MULTAN: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) registered a case against Medical Superintendent, Nishtar Hospital, Dr Ashiq Malik and six others on the charge of purchasing medicines...

‘South Punjab to have separate development programme in next budget’

MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Saturday said that south Punjab would have a separate annual development programme in the next provincial budget. Addressing the...

Nishtar Hospital faces acute shortage of dialysis machines

MULTAN: Nishtar Hospital, the largest health facility of south Punjab, is facing a shortage of dialysis machines used for kidney-related ailments since long, APP has learnt reliably. Initially,...