Tag: Punjab

LAHORE - The trials for the selection of Punjab U-13 football team for 13th National U-13 Festival of Football will be held on Monday (2 PM) at MTFA Ground, Model Town. Punjab Football Association (PFA)'s President Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi has approved Model Town Football Academy (MTFA)'s President and former Pakistan manager Mian Rizwan Ali as camp commandant while Faisalabad's Imdad Awan will be head of selection committee.
The Pakistan Football Federation will stage the

LAHORE - Religious and political parties on Sunday blamed the federal and Punjab governments for suicide of Shumaila, widow of Fahim, who was killed by American citizen Raymond Davis at the Qartaba Chowk some days ago.
They said that Shumaila gave her life after getting frustrated over the alleged plan of both governments to prove Davis as a diplomat and ensuring his immunity under immense US pressure. Shumaila committed suicide at her mother's house after taking poisonous pills

LAHORE - Asfar Jutt and Mehmood Ahmed Khan were declared the 59th Mr and Junior Mr Punjab after a tough competition held in Rawalpindi. The 59th annual contest was held at Rawalpndi Arts Council under the supervision of the Punjab Bodybuilding Association.
According to PBA Secretary Muhammad Naeem Akhtar, the event was participated by more than 80 musclemen from nine zones of the province. They included zones of Lahore, Bahawalpuer, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Rawalpindi,

LAHORE - The fate of many 'loved ones' of the Punjab government is at stake after the Supreme Court's ruling in January against the re-employment of retired officers, while the Services and General Administration Department (S&GAD) has already sought details of all such employees from different government departments across Punjab, Pakistan Today has learnt.
An eight-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on January 27 observed that re-employment of retired officers on senior

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday refused a proposal by a party MPA to allow the party leadership to sit on the opposition benches and try to topple the government of PML-N in Punjab with the help of the PML-Q legislators, saying the PPP would not weaken the PML-N government.
"Ruling Punjab is a right of the PML-N and it was me who had asked Nawaz Sharif soon after the 2008 elections to use his right to form a government in Punjab. Now we should not weaken the

LAHORE - The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) and Punjab government are on warpath on the issue of controlled areas falling into their jurisdictions as DHA claims to have thousands of acres land in its legal control under notification issued in the Gazette of Pakistan while the Punjab government overrules DHA's jurisdiction and plans to make the notification null and void.
PML-N senior leader and MNA Khawaja Saad Rafiq is behind the ripple who brought notification into the notice

LAHORE - Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Punjab government to ensure an early and transparent investigation of an alleged incident of honour killing of a young woman in a village of Bahawalpur district.
The young woman, Saima, left her parents house in November and went away to Karachi with a man named Dilawar she wanted to marry as her family wanted her to marry someone else. Saima's family had took Dilawar's father to Karachi with them and brought

FAISALABAD - The city traffic police in coordination with Honda Atlas Company started a traffic awareness programme titled 'Roshan Punjab campaign' for motor cyclists. The safety campaign was started to convey a message to motorcyclists that they should not risk their life or the life of others by riding a motorcycle with faulty lights at night.
The campaign sponsored by Honda Atlas offered motorcyclists to bring their motorcycles with faulty lights at the Honda camp at

LAHORE - The Punjab Squash Association will organise the Punjab National Junior Squash Championship from February 2 to 7. Boys and girls from all over Pakistan will be participating in this Championship. The final will be played on February 7 at 1600 hours at PSA Complex Lahore.
Governor Punjab will be the chief guest in the final. The competitions will be held in five boys and two girls categories. The boys will compete in under-11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 categories while girls

LAHORE - Ahmer Mallick was elected as president and Sajjad Asgher secretary general of Punjab Table Tennis Association here on Sunday. The annual general council and election meeting of the association was held here at the committee room of the Sports Board Punjab at the National Hockey Stadium.
All the affiliated districts of the association attend the meeting and the elected panel and the executive body elected nine-members as executive member from different districts. The

LAHORE - The Punjab government has dispatched an official letter to the federal government to play its role for the immediate custody of the US Consulate driver and car which ran over and killed Ubaidur Rehman in a bid to help Raymond Davis, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.
According to sources, the letter sought federal government's help to unearth mystery behind the movement and the killing spree of Davis and his accomplices, who managed to escape from the scene. The letter

LAHORE - Both the federal and Punjab governments are at odds over which government will decide the fate of US national Raymond Davis, charged with double murder, in the wake of US government's demand for his release. On Saturday, the US embassy in Islamabad asked the government to release Raymond Davis as he was protected by the Vienna Convention that gives diplomats immunity against arrest or criminal proceedings.
In response to the US demand, the Punjab government distanced

LAHORE - The Sports Board Punjab on Thursday gave cash awards to its female athletes for winning the PSB Inter-Provincial Youth U-16 Girls Athletics Championship.
The awards ceremony was held at the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore, and Secretary Sports Punjab Saeed Ahmed Nawaz was the chief guest and distributed prizes among the winners of the Championship, while DG Sports Salman Ijaz was also present on the occasion
The gold medal winner athletes were given Rs 5000 each

LAHORE - The Punjab U-16 girls athletics team won the PSB Inter-Provincial Youth U-16 girls Athletics Championship held from January 24 to 25 in Karachi. They secured 68 points to clinch the title while Sindh secured 55 points and KPK declared third with 35 points.
The Punjab team won five gold, two silver and three bronze medals. Sahbe Asra from Punjab was declared the best athlete of the events. Dr Mohammad Ali Shah was the chief guest. In the final girls athletics events, Sara

LAHORE - A spokesman of Mines and Minerals Department Punjab has said that all rights and privileges of Chiniot-Rajoa iron ore project are vested in the government of Punjab and that the only external actors involved are consultancy services.
The spokesman elaborated that the Punjab government has planned development of its iron ore resources in a scientific manner and approved a road map with the final objective to establish a steel mill in Punjab. It was indicated that as a

LAHORE - The Sports Board Punjab picked a 17-member boxing team after week-
long trials here on Tuesday. The boxers have been selected from SBP competitions. After the U-14 boxing trials, the training camps have been
established to prepare the boxers.
The players are Muhammad Din (36Kg), Mudassar Khan (38KG), Tariq Khan (40KG), Hamza Mujeeb (42KG), Shan Hanif (44KG), Mehboob Khan(46KG), Salman Usman (48KG), Abdullah Ibrahim(50KG) and Danial Khan(54KG) from Lahore,

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Education Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh has said that the provincial government is spending billions of rupees on the promotion of education as it was its first priority. He was addressing a meeting held here at education office on the other day.
He called upon the officers of the education department to perform their duties honestly, in a professional manner and with the spirit of serving the nation. He directed the teachers to ensure 100 per cent enrolment