Lahore

‘Businessmen can help tackle economic crisis’

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE SENATOR Ishaq Dar has said that the business community has potential to bring the country out of the economic mire, therefore, the government should start consulting the...

Shahbaz Sahrif leaves for China on 6-day visit

LAHORE: Chief minister Punjab Mian Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday left here with a 16-member delegation on the six-day visit to China Talking with journalists at the Allama Iqbal International Airport before leaving for...

ANALYSIS-India wonders how deep "Hindu terrorism" goes

Source: Reuters By Bappa Majumdar NEW DELHI, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Reports that Hindu militants may be involved in bomb attacks first blamed on Islamists may open a Pandora's Box for India's beleaguered security ...

Sunday bazaar officials get rough with shoppers

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE IN the absence of check from higher authorities this week, the staff deputed at Sunday Bazaars misbehaved with the shoppers who approached them for redress of their grievances. A...

Pervaiz warns against IMF help

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Our correspondent LAHORE PML-Q Punjab President Chaudhry Pervez Elahi Sunday warned that seeking help from the International Monitory Funds (IMF) would be fatal to the government which had already...

Pakistanis rush to buy London property

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Aamir Ghauri LONDON: Millions of dollars flying out of Pakistan are landing in London’s slumped property market and many more millions supposed to go to Pakistan are being put on hold by uncertain...

Pollution plague

Monday, November 17, 2008 A new report by the United Nations Environmental Protection Agency (UNEP) says Karachi is one of 13 heavily polluted mega-cities. The report says that in these pollution ‘hotspots’, which include...

PPSC to regularise doctors’ services

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Amer Malik LAHORE The Punjab government has decided to give equal opportunity to both contractual and regular teaching cadre doctors to compete for regularization of services and promotions through...

PTI launches membership drive

Imran says ‘taxing the rich’ a high priority Monday, November 17, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE PAKISTAN Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Sunday started the PTI membership drive, terming it a re-launch of the party...

MTS guards’ negligence kills rare fish

Monday, November 17, 2008 By Our Correspondent LAHORE DOZENS of Koi Carp, a fish specie, rarely available in Pakistan, died after the security officials of Model Town Society (MTS) allegedly netted them in the controversial...