‘Man sets girl on fire for rejecting proposal’ in Mandi Bahauddin
GUJRAT: A man allegedly set a 19-year-old girl on fire for refusing his marriage proposal in Mandi Bahauddin district on Friday, sources said...
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PakistanPolice claim arrest of Karachi ‘knifeman’ in Mandi Bahauddin
KARACHI/LAHORE/SAHIWAL: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested in Mandi Bahauddin the prime suspect in attacking women with a sharp object, probably scalpel, in Karachi in a joint operation conducted by Sahiwal and Karachi police...
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ArchiveNA-108 by-poll: PML-N wooing its disgruntled leaders in Mandi Bahauddin
GUJRAT: The ruling PML-N has started wooing its disgruntled leaders in Mandi Bahauddin district back into party fold to strengthen its position ahead of the by-election in NA-108...
In the political arena of the NA-108, where by-election is scheduled for June 8, former PPP MPA from Mandi Bahauddin city Tariq Mehmood Sahi is likely to join the PTI since his rival Dewan Mushtaq is expected to rejoin the PML-N...
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ArchiveNA-108 by-poll PPP reminds voters what it has done for Mandi Bahauddin
GUJRAT: Senior leadership of the Pakistan People’s Party in a bid to muster support for party candidate Asif Basheer Bhagat in the NA-108 by-election has reminded the people of Mandi Bahauddin that it was the PPP that had awarded the area a status of district two decades ago for which the area people had been striving since long...
Before the creation of the district, Mandi Bahauddin and Malakwal were the part of Phalia tehsil in...
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ArchiveCOLUMN: A SCENE IN MANDI BAHAUDDIN
I recently made a flying visit to Pakistan to attend a conference at the University of Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin campus...
”Mandi Bahauddin’s bard and the founder of Ali’s Theatre, Usman Ali, exerts an almost cult-like hold over his young students, who revere his visionary teaching and supple creative imagination...
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PakistanSanity saves the day in Mandi Bahauddin
MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Chak 44 is calm after an incident a month ago threatened to break its tranquility in Malakwal tehsil of Mandi Bahauddin...
You will hear some bad things about our Chak in Gojra and Mandi Bahauddin cities, while the picture portrayed in Lahore and Islamabad is worse,” said Mr Khan, who teaches at the Government High School of the village...
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PakistanMandi Bahauddin election scene: Ruling party MNAs at loggerheads
GUJRAT: Ruling PML-N candidates in Mandi Bahauddin face a tough challenge from none other than their own party colleagues who are contesting independently in the local government elections second phase scheduled to be held on Nov 19...
There are 80 rural union councils in the district -- 30 in Mandi Bahauddin tehsil, 28 in Phalia and 22 in Malakwal...
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PakistanA taste of Peshawar’s Namak Mandi
ISLAMABAD: By flavouring their grilled meat and most karhai dishes with just salt, Charsi Tikka in Saidpur Village brings the taste of Peshawar’s famous Namak Mandi to Islamabad...
Although Charsi Tikka does away with the traditional floor seating or charpoys that are typical of tikka outlets in Namak Mandi, it does feature a live kitchen, where customers can see mutton tikkas grilling on an open spit and chicken tossed with fresh...
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PakistanSituation in Mandi Bahauddin village ‘under control’
LAHORE: Rejecting some social media reports, Mandi Bahauddin police say no one has tried to attack Christian community in a village close to the town and the situation there is under control...
A local Christian leader told Dawn that Imran Masih, a sweeper in a health centre in Mandi Bahauddin, attended a marriage ceremony of his Muslim colleague’s daughter and made a video of celebrations on his cell phone in mid April...
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PakistanHow Facebook is killing Lahore's Heera Mandi
But as an e-commerce boom revolutionises how Pakistanis conduct the world's oldest profession, locals say the historic Heera Mandi district is under threat...
With location rendered meaningless, prostitutes like Reema Kanwal ? who says the business "runs in my blood" ? have abandoned Heera Mandi...
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PakistanSuspected land grabbers behind Mandi Bahauddin unrest, claims local landlord
LAHORE: A group of suspected land grabbers has been behind the Mandi Bahauddin village unrest, claimed a local landlord, Amanullah...
Tension reportedly surfaced in Chak-44 of Mandi Bahauddin when some individuals started spreading rumours around a month ago that a sweeper employed with a health facility in the town had committed blasphemy...
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PakistanResidents of Gakhar Mandi celebrate new COAS appointment
GUJRAT/GUJRANWALA: There was an air of festivity among the residents of Gakhar Mandi city, near Gujranwala Cantonment, who gathered on GT Road on Saturday to celebrate the appointment of the new army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, whose family hails from the small town in central Punjab...
A resident of Ghalla Mandi told Dawn that Gen Bajwa had not studied at his ancestral town since his father had been an army officer who was...
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ArchiveHyderabad: the case for a new sabzi mandi
SHIFTING the wholesale vegetable and fruit market, to its new location, in Hyderabad continues to be delayed owing to Sindh’s tardy pace of implementing projects and habit of accumulating cost overruns...
While the new market is yet to become functional, authorities are seeking millions of rupees for repairing damages caused by rains -
ArchiveDistrict profile: Party lines blur in Mandi Bahauddin
DESPITE internal rifts and groupings within the local rank and file of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in Mandi Bahauddin district, there will be a tough competition between the candidates of the two parties on as many National Assembly (NA) seats and four Punjab Assembly (PA) seats of the district...
Take a look: Electable, biradari, party politics in Punjab Similarly a strong group...
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ArchiveAt least four Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin women to get reserved seats
GUJRAT: At least four women politicians from Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin are likely to be selected as national and provincial lawmakers on reserved seats...
Former MPA Basima Riaz Chaudhry from Mandi Bahauddin, who is the niece of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, is on the top of PML-Q’s list of women’s reserved seats in the Punjab Assembly and has bright chances of getting a seat in the House...
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