PRA wants YouTube, Dailymotion registered
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Thursday served separate notices to two international video-sharing websites — YouTube and Dailymotion — and a local website Mustakbil...
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ArchiveTrade unions dub budget ‘pro-elite’
LAHORE: Labour and trade unions rejected on Friday the federal budget of 2015-16, calling it disappointing, anti-labour and pro-business-cum-ruling class...
They also criticised the PML government for awarding, what they said, peanuts to government employees and unskilled labour in pay, pension and daily wages -
ArchivePower theft can’t be stopped with lip service: PTI
“We will see if they can make any difference other than paying lip service,” he added...
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PakistanGovt pays ‘lip service’ to English medium plan
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s bid to change the medium of instruction at all its public sector schools has got the students into hot water...
Some five years ago, the Punjab School Education Department decided that the medium of instruction in all existing public sector schools would be English instead of Urdu -
ArchiveThe cup and the lip
Unfortunately, there is many a slip between the cup and the lip...
It cannot let the China cup slip from the Pakistani lip...
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ArchivePaying lip-service to counter-terrorism
“The National Action Plan (NAP) empowers the military, ‘the performing institution’, whereas the government is characterised by its ineptitude and poor performance...
”This simple statement-of-fact came from a person no less than the former army chief, Gen (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg in immediate response to the NAP -
WorldLip-locking is not necessary in a film: Salman Khan
To kiss or not to kiss is a popular question in Bollywood, and superstar Salman Khan has given his two cents on the matter: for him, kissing scenes are not necessary in a film...
The 49-year-old actor, whose production Hero will be soon be released, has reportedly edited a 30-minute scene from the film that showed the lead couple kissing, according to The Indian Express,The romantic film Hero will be introducing new faces to the... -
PakistanMoonis upbraids Maryam for ‘tweeting lip service to Kashmir’
“We do not want any lip service from Maryam or any other PML-N leader on the Kashmir issue...
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ArchiveShehbaz chides govt for paying lip service to inflation
LAHORE: Opposition leader in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif has chided the government for convening just meetings on price control instead of taking practical measures to save the people from inflation...
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ArchiveMissing persons’ families demand practical steps, not lip service
Enforced disappearances, which began several years ago in Balochistan and erstwhile Fata on the pretext of fighting terrorists and insurgents, have extended to major urban centres, including Islamabad, KP and Sindh over the years...
“After coming to power, they either forget it or just pay lip service...
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ArchiveIslamabad Police conducts operation inside Parliament Lodges in Islamabad
Islamabad police is currently conducting an operation inside the Parliament Lodges, according to footage seen on DawnNewsTV...
Islamabad Inspector General of Police Muhammad Ahsan Younus took notice of the group's presence inside the lodges, according to a tweet posted from their official account...
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ArchivePolo players of Islamabad Club overpower Kalabagh in final
ISLAMABAD: The gathering clouds gave players in the final match at Margalla Polo Club on Saturday, impetus to play a fast game...
This thrilling game lasted four chukkers and the men of Islamabad Club team in red managed to defeat the Kalabagh team in black...
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Archive‘Lums seminar’ on Balochistan held in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: “There were dead bodies found in Balochistan with Pakistan Zindabad carved into their skins,” Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur said on Saturday, at a seminar which had to be relocated to a different city for it to be held...
While it was finally held at Kuch Khaas in Islamabad on Saturday, M...
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ArchiveFour ‘target killers’ from Karachi held in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Four men allegedly involved in incidents of target killings in Karachi and robberies in the federal capital have been arrested here, Dawn has learnt through reliable sources...
Know more: Contract killers to be arrested in next phase of Karachi operationThe arrests were made during an investigation into some incidents of robbery in Islamabad, most of them taking place outside banks and involving people who had drawn cash...
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ArchiveMoral brigade active in Islamabad again
ISLAMABAD: Are they back – the moral brigades that blackened the faces of women on advertisement boards in 2007?At least that is what people feared when they found bared arms and faces of models on billboards defaced in Super Market during Eid shopping spree...
“Islamabad has no culture of hooliganism...
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