What’s up granpa?
Children look with awe as a barber shaves an elderly man’s head on a sidewalk. app
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Former adviser to CM defects to PPP
* Takes with him 25 Bahawalnagar UC nazims, PML ticket holder
* PML ticket holder from Lahore, Raiwind PML office-bearers also defect to PPP
* Shah Mehmood doubts APDM will be successful
Staff Report
LAHORE: Mian Shaukat Ali Lalika, former adviser to the Punjab chief minister,... 
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Girl commits suicide
LAHORE: A girl on Friday died at the Mayo Hospital, who took poison on Thursday night after a spat with her father. Reportedly, Tabinda, 18 and a resident of Masti Gate, refused to do housework and her father Naveed Ahmad scolded her, when she locked herself up in the room and had poison. Her family...
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Lawyers ready to welcome CJP again
* CJP expected to arrive at Lahore Airport at 2pm and venue at midnight
* 10,000 chairs and 15,000 lunch boxes arranged for lawyers at speech venue
LAHORE: Lawyers of the city have completed their arrangements for the reception of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...
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120 policemen to control crime today
LAHORE: The city police has 175 reserves, each reserve having 20 policemen. About 80 of these reserves have been deputed at select points for maintaining law and order in context of the Lal Masjid incident, 89 have been deputed to control law and order on the CJP’s route in the city. The remaining six...
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Lawyers continue token strike
LAHORE: Lawyers’ ongoing token hunger strike and hour-long courts boycott (from 10:30am to 11:30am) entered its 107th day on Wednesday. They attended hunger strike camps at Aiwan-e-Adal and LHCBA compounds and chanted anti-government and pro-CJP slogans. Activists of several NGOs also participated in...
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LBA takes out torch-bearing procession
LAHORE: Hundreds of lawyers of the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) took out a torch-bearing procession led by the LBA president on Friday, a day before the CJP’s arrival in Lahore. About 500 lawyers, out of which about 200 held torches, participated in the rally and chanted slogans against the government....
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LHC allows love-marriage as girl turns 16 during hearing
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday allowed a newly wedded girl Asma Mehmood, who was four days short of the eligible age to marry without parental consent, to leave with her husband after recording her statement. On July 11, the court had sent her to Darul Aman for four days. Asma said in...
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LHC lets girl, recovered from parents, leave with husband
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday allowed a girl Anwar Parveen, who was brought to court by the police from her family’s custody, to leave with her husband. Sultan Ahmad of Chiniot had filed a habeas corpus for the recovery of his wife Anwar Parveen. He had submitted that Parveen had married...
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Edhi handled 15 unclaimed corpses in June
Staff Report
LAHORE: Edhi Foundation found 15 unclaimed corpses from public places across the city in June 2007, Daily Times learnt on Friday.
The corpses were found from footpaths and garbage dumps of Ravi Pul, Jallo Park, Sabzazar Scheme and from outside hospitals. Till in July...
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Homage
The shrine of Inayat Shah Qadri, a Sufi saint and a mystic poet known for being the mentor of renowned poet Bulleh Shah, has been decorated on the three-day festival of his 281st annual aniversary. Inayat Shah lived in Lahore and adhered to the Qadri order of Sufism. He authored several Persian...
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