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Website launched to help trace, reunite missing children in Punjab

Punjab government launches website to help reunite recovered children with families LAHORE - Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has introduced the website ‘Missing Children Recovery’ to reunite the lost children with their families across the province. The Punjab Information Technology Board’s...

Education Rankings 2016: Punjab tops, Balochistan and FATA lag far behind

Only 52% of government schools in the country have access to all four basic facilities which include toilets, boundary walls, electricity and drinking water, reveals the survey ISLAMABAD  - Pakistan District Education Rankings 2016 claims that Islamabad, Chakwal, and Kotli...

Army launches Punjab-wide operation against militants after Lahore carnage

The Army and Rangers will conduct a full-blown operation across Punjab to target militants, their facilitators and their hideouts, military sources confirmed ISLAMABAD - Pakistan army has initiated a military operation to crackdown banned militant outfits across Punjab following a...

At least 60 killed, more than 300 wounded in Lahore blast

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif strongly condemned the blast incident in Lahore LAHORE - A deadly explosion occurred in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park of Iqbal Town on Sunday evening, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 300.The blast took place...

Coca-Cola opens new Multan plant, promises $200 million investment

Coca-Cola İçecek (CCI) has opened a $70-million coke bottling plant in Multan and plans to invest another $200 million in Pakistan in the next 3 years. CCI chairman Tuncay Özilhan and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar inaugurated Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited’s...

Heavy rain, thunderstorm across Pakistan claim 18 lives

At least 18 people were killed and several others injured in rain-related incidents in different areas of Baluchistan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday as heavy rains and thunderstorm continued to lash various parts of the country. Torrential rains across...

Imran Khan urges for equal education access at Namal College convocation

MIANWALI – Sixty engineering students were awarded BSc degrees by Namal College during the institution’s first convocation ceremony, chaired by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan. Speaking on the occasion, Imran Khan stressed the need to provide equal opportunities in...

Majority of Punjab’s brick kiln child-workers enrolled in schools

Around 18,622 out of 23,000 children working in brick kilns in Punjab have been enrolled in schools LAHORE - “Out of 23,000 working children in brick kilns in Pakistan, 18,622 have been successfully enrolled in schools for education” said Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, Minister for...

Suicide attack on Punjab home minister, 9 others killed

ATTOCK – A powerful provincial minister of Pakistan who had vowed to eliminate terrorists without any discrimination was himself attacked by a terrorist suicide bomber when he visited his native town. At least nine people were confirmed dead and...

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