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Senior Inter District Cricket Tournament begins

The three day Senior Inter District Cricket Tournament started at different venues of the city on Friday. At LCCA ground, North Zone Blues were...

Senior educationist shot dead in Quetta

Saba Dashtiari, a senior professor of the Balochistan University, was gunned down on Wednesday evening by unknown gunmen. Saba came out of the varsity...

Sharifs’ nepotism angers senior PML-N leaders

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has begun to develop what could be irreparable cracks within the party on the nomination of Ishaq Dar for...

LTC offers free transport facility for senior citizens, disabled

Advisor to Chief Minister and Lahore Transport Company (LTC) Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan has said that citizens of more than 65 years of age...

Senior journalists honoured

The Council of National Affairs held a reception in honour of Urdu Digest Editor Altaf Hassan Qureshi and Wafaq Editor Mustafa Sadiq on Friday....

Senior Indian opposition leader slams government on corruption

NEW DELHI - India's former deputy prime minister and senior Opposition BJP leader L.K. Advani has hit out at the Congress-led UPA government, saying its sincerity in tackling corruption would be visible only through actions taken by it in scams that have rocked the country.
"Even before the Parliament meets for its Monsoon Session and takes up the Lokpal Bill being considered by the Committee secured by Anna Hazare, the real test of Government's sincerity about tackling

WICB says senior players still part of the set-up

ST JOHN'S - Reports that senior players in the West Indies team may be dropped permanently have been greatly exaggerated, Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board Ernest Hilaire said Saturday.
West Indies have excluded former captains Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, and Ramnaresh Sarwan, their three most capped players, from their squad for the first the opening exchanges in their home series against Pakistan, starting this coming week. The move has prompted

PIA removes senior official on SC orders

KARACHI - Dilawar Fareed Baig, a relative of former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar Mirza, has been removed from the post of Director Training and Development at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) under the Supreme Court's ruling on superannuation. It has been learnt that Baig was granted extension for two years during the former PIA managing director Ejaz Haroon's period, but now he had to leave after crossing the age limit approved by the apex court.
The airlines' Chief

LWH senior registrar post lying vacant for 30 years

LAHORE - The post of senior registrar has been lying vacant in Lady Willingdon Hospital (LWH) for more than 30 years thanks to the negligence of the Health Department. LWH is one of those hospitals in Punjab where only mother and child care is being facilitated. More than 90 deliveries take place daily in the hospital and about 300 female patients visit the outpatient department.
Sources said that 24 seats of assistant professor, associate professor, senior registrar

CORRUPTION AT PU – Senior PU official uses ‘influence’ to get...

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) teachers condemned PU Hall Council Chairman Dr Amin Ather for 'using his influence' to get a new Honda City car when the varsity's administration had opposed the car purchase, terming it a burden on the varsity and against the rules. PU teachers said that Dr Ather, who has a close association with Tanzeem Asataza, a Jamat-e-Islami (JI) group, was enjoying luxuries by violating one-man-one-post policy and already had three vehicles. A PU administrative

17 senior govt officials hold dual nationality

ISLAMABAD - Around 17 federal government officers of BPS-18 and above hold dual nationality, Establishment Division's minister in-charge told the National Assembly (NA) on Monday.
The officers include Australian national Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Yaseen, British national Wasim Tauqeer, British national Talat Abbasi, British national National Language Authority Chairman Iftikhar Arif, Canadian national Deputy Census Commissioner Ismail Leghari,

DBA senior member burnt alive

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala District Bar Association (DBA) senior member Altaf Rabbani was burnt alive owing to when sudden fire broke out in his room. Reportedly, due the gas leakage, the fire broke out in the room and the lawyer burnt alive. He was shifted to the Mayo hospital Lahore from the District Head Quarters (DHQ) Gujranwala where he could not survive.
ARMY AVIATION GRADUATION CEREMONY HELD: Army Aviation Basic Course's graduation ceremony was held at Army Aviation School

Senior defies years to win Australian PGA

BRISBANE: Peter Senior outlasted Geoff Ogilvy in a sudden-death play-off to seal his third Australian PGA Championship title in dramatic style Monday, 21 years after his first win. Senior, 51, won with a par on the second extra hole at the Coolum course after last week's Australian Open winner Ogilvy missed his two-metre par putt.
It was Senior's 28th career title, his 20th on the Australasian PGA Tour and he is the oldest winner of Australia's oldest professional title. "What a

ATC issues arrest warrants for senior police officers in Benazir murder

RAWALPINDI: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued arrest warrants for Rawal Town Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad and former Rawalpindi city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Shahzad and Aziz under sections 119, 109 and 20 for negligence and misappropriations in evidences required for investigations. The judge said both police officials
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Scarcity of senior judges puts LHC image at stake

LAHORE: The working and performance of the Lahore High Court (LHC) is suffering because of a shortage of senior judges; 87 percent of LHC judges are junior judges with little grasp over judicial matters, sources told Pakistan Today.
The court sources said the scarcity of senior judges at LHC was a big hurdle in clearing the ever-increasing backlog of the cases or doing full justice to the cases, and as a result public finds itself in dire straits. Court officials including