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  • How Facebook is killing Lahore's Heera Mandi

    LAHORE: Pakistan's oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and prostitutes ? Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of the vibrant city...

    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...

  • FIA doesn’t want Tareens on no-fly list in sugar scam

    LAHORE: As the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is digging out evidence related to ‘onward money trail’ in the case of estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Tareen, the agency has decided not to request the interior ministry for the placement of the duo’s names on the no-fly list because ‘it does not feel the need’...

    As the Tareens are facing Rs5 billion money laundering and fraud charges in...

  • Sugar industry paid to downplay heart risks of sugar, promote risks of fat: study

    In the 1960’s, before conflict of interest disclosure was required, the sugar industry sponsored research promoting dietary fat as an important cause of coronary heart disease, and downplaying the role of sugar, according to a special report in JAMA Internal Medicine...

    A 1967 literature review in The New England Journal of Medicine pointed to fat and cholesterol as the dietary culprits of heart disease, glossing over evidence from...

  • Police 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...

    After the Karachi attacks, a similar incident occurred in Lahore’s Chuhng area when a bike-rider allegedly stabbed and injured a woman a few days ago...

  • NA-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...

  • NA-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...

  • COLUMN: 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...

    Unfortunately, I haven’t yet had the chance to watch an Ajoka production, though I hope to right this wrong when I next go to Lahore...

  • Sanity 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...

  • Mandi 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...

  • A 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...

  • Situation 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...

  • Residents 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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