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LAHORE - As Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif is gaining health stability, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Shrif has planned to return to the country on Sunday.
The CM had flown to London one week ago when got informed that his elder brother Nawaz Sharif had some heart problem. During Nawaz's open heart surgery which had to be carried out on emergency basis, Shahbaz stayed in hospital in London.

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari Wednesday conferred civil and military awards on outstanding individuals at an investiture ceremony held here at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, the chairman senate, speaker national assembly, federal ministers, parliamentarians, services chiefs, Islamabad-based diplomats and prominent citizens attended the ceremony.
President Zardari decorated both civil and military personnel, including the foreign nationals for

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

LAHORE - The PML-N has publicised a fact sheet on the issue of the alleged stay order against Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday. The fact sheet says there is absolutely no stay order whatsoever which has been passed in this case (or, for that matter, in any other case), on the strength of which Shahbaz Sharif continued to hold the office of Punjab Chief Minister Punjab.
The facts regarding the litigation pertaining to the raising of challenge to (i) the very

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif urged the army once again on Tuesday to safeguard the country against terrorism, and said that the administration, police, civil society, media and people from all walks of life would have to contribute their share to rid the country of the menace. The CM told assembly members from Faisalabad and Sargodha at Chief Minister's Secretariat that it was the collective responsibility of all Pakistanis to strive for national development and

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has advised Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to call an all-parties conference, including the army and judiciary, to devise solutions to the country's problems. The prime minister, however, told reporters in Islamabad that he would respond to Shahbaz Sharif's proposal after going through the details. Shahbaz told reporters after the inauguration of a three-day anti-polio campaign at his residence in Lahore that two days ago he had

LAHORE - Pakistan is facing serious challenges and needs tolerance, brotherhood and unity like never before, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday.
He was talking to members of the provincial assembly (MPA). The CM said that it was important that collective efforts were made for the solution of the problems being faced by the country and he was ready to go to anyone for this purpose. Shahbaz said that Pakistan was facing terrorism and extremism and progress and

Faisalabad - Divisional Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Engineer Azeem Randhawa has held American intelligence agency, CIA, responsible for the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. He was killed by the CIA to divert the global attention from the case of Raymond Davis, the US spy who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore, he said. Engineer Azeem Randhawa was determined that it was necessary to free Pakistan from the US grip and restore the national dignity, he said and

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the parliamentary group of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q has improved the image of politicians by upholding democratic norms and values, rather than hankering after power. He said that the move would usher in a new era of politics of principles.
Addressing the PML-Q parliamentary group at the CM Secretariat, the chief minister said that the decision of the parliamentary group had not only enhanced their respect, but also

LAHORE - In a major development, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has reconstituted his cabinet by including just one new minister and filling the portfolios left vacant by the Pakistan People's Party ministers' ouster by awarding additional charges to his existing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ministers.
The Unification Bloc received no ministerial slot in the first phase of the cabinet restructuring. Zulfiqar Khosa is the new addition in Shahbaz's cabinet, bagging the slot

ISLAMABAD - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday criticised Interior Minister Rehman Malik for using the term "Punjabi Taliban" in the federal cabinet meeting, saying such statements could fan provincialism. He was talking to media outside the home of slain Shahbaz Bhatti where he condoled with the aggrieved family.
He said that terrorism was a national issue but some elements were trying to politicise the condemnable act of murder of Minorities Minister Shahbaz

FAISALABAD - Grief, anger and gloom gripped the city after the assassination of Federal Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti in Islamabad who was born in a remote village of Faisalabad and was the only member of Gilani's cabinet from Faisalabad region. A large number of Christians scattered all over the Faisalabad division are heart broken at the brutal murder of their leader.
The incident has sent waves of fear and a deep sense of insecurity among the minorities who are already

SIALKOT- Hundreds of Christians on Thursday afternoon took out a peaceful rally to condemn the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. The rally which was at the city's congested Allama Iqbal Chowk was led by Bishop Samuel Masih. A large number of people from all walks of life, including political workers, civil society members and the activists of various NGOs and human rights bodies, participated in the rally.
The protesters were holding banners and

LAHORE - Nawa-e-Waqt founder and Pakistan Movement worker Hameed Nizami always struggled for democracy and was a symbol of hard work and honesty, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday.
He was addressing a seminar held in Hameed Nizami's memory at the Alhamra Arts Council. Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed, former Sindh chief minister Ghous Ali Shah, Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood, MPA Rana Arshad and journalists including Ataul Haq Qasmi,

DASKA - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved special grant of Rs 90 million for the early repair, reconstruction and widening of three main roads. The PML-N leader from Daska MPA Yahya Gul Nawaz said the CM had approved this grant during his recent visit to Sialkot.
He said Rs 40 million would be spent on upgrading the Daska city's main College Road and construction of a service road along it. He said the government was spending Rs 50 million on the reconstruction of

LAHORE - Economic uplift of the country as well as the masses would remain the focal point of the next general elections as the worsening economic conditions have become a matter of prime importance for the common man, Chief Coordinator All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) and former federal minister Chaudhry Shahbaz said in an exclusive interview with Pakistan Today.
He stated that owing to sky rocketing price hike and inflation, the issue of improvement in economic conditions is

LAHORE - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab has decided against taking the PML-N head on, as Senior Minister Raja Riaz hinted on Thursday that a no-confidence motion against Shahbaz Sharif would not be tabled even if the PPP was ousted from the Punjab coalition government.
Talking to reporters, Riaz said the PPP wanted to continue with its policy of reconciliation and the PPP would not move a no-confidence motion against the Punjab chief minister in any case. "We will sit