Punjab

Saturday Sept 14, 2013, Lahore: A five-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped in the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province and dumped outside a hospital, officials said today. The girl was left outside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore yesterday after being brutally raped by unidentified men. The girl, who had earlier...

LAHORE: A local banking court Friday issued bailable arrest warrants for Shahid Nazir, the One Pound Fish famed, on a criminal complaint filed by a leasing company. Banking Court-Lahore IV, Judge Khalid Nawaz issued the order on a criminal complaint filed by Orix Leasing Company in a recovery suit of...

LAHORE - Six more dengue patients were brought to various hospitals on Wednesday, taking the number of confirmed cases in the province to 71. Out of six new cases, five were reported from Lahore and one from neighboring Sheikhupura district. Ahmed Raza, 22, a resident of Wasanpura, Muhammad Junaid, 23,...

 Mujahid Kamran The vice chancellor of Punjab University has been engulfed in a case of harassment alleged by a female lecturer of University Law College. The VC did not seem bothered till the news came that the new Governor of Punjab had ordered an inquiry into the allegations by the...

Floods In Pakistan - Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods affecting more than 300,000 people across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed 108 others, disaster management officials said on Sunday. "The rains affected 334,764 people, killed at least 108 people and wounded 104," a senior National Disaster Management...

TOBA TEK SINGH: At least fourteen people were injured in an explosion that took place in the bogey (carriage) of the Shalimar Express on Monday. The train was travelling from Lahore to Karachi when the blast took place in the washroom of the bogey. Rescue teams reached the site of...

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Lahore: An explosion occurred at an eatery situated in Lahore's old Anarkali area a while back, killing at least three persons and injuring more than a dozen others.Nearby buildings and parked vehicles were damaged as a result of the blast, DCO Lahore, said - Nasim Sadiq, around  37 victims were shifted...

SHEIKHUPURA : Fourteen members of a family were killed and three others critically injured when a speeding train hit a rickshaw at an unmanned level-crossing near Khanpur village on Saturday. According to Rescue 1122 and police, an ill-fated family of village Daowdkey Khanpur was going to participate in Urs celebrations...

LAHORE: In the intensive-care ward of Lahore's Mayo hospital, pale, spotty children cry in the intense heat of the Pakistani summer -- victims of a devastating measles outbreak.Punjab, Pakistan's most populous province of which Lahore is the capital, has borne the brunt of the epidemic. It has 18,000 of the...

LAHORE, Jun 17: Punjab Finance Minister Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman  Monday presented Rs 871,95 billion budget for the next fiscal year with special emphasis on education, health, agriculture and communication sectors. Presenting the budget for the fiscal year 2013-14 during the PA session with Speaker Rana Muhammad Iqbal khan in the chair,...

Ushna Suhail clinched the Spanish Monty Tennis Tournament title for the first in her international tennis career after thrashing her Spanish opponent Ester Valles 6-1, 6-1 at BTA courts, Barcelona in the finals. In the first set, both players started off well and made it one-game all. In the third...