By: Intikhab Amir PESHAWAR: Thousands of tribal area families have suffered as the federal government’s housing compensation programme for the people affected by floods in 2010 doesn’t cover their region, according to officials. The federal authorities concerned have been giving a cold shoulder to tribesmen whose houses were destroyed by floods, an official told Dawn […]
IT’S always easy to presume guilt, to shoot first and ask questions later. The National Accountability Bureau has taken this easiest of all roads in its dealings with the Federal Board of Revenue and the telecoms on the question of the alleged tax liability of Rs47bn that the FBR raised recently. Against a relatively routine […]
ISLAMABAD: A woman was gunned down in capital’s rural area here on Wednesday, police said. The victim Shariala Bibi, 38, came over to her parents’ house in Madina Colony at Tarnol. After half an hour from her arrival she went outside the house and shortly after the family heard gunshots. In response they rushed outside […]
LAHORE: Six people, including three nurses and a woman patient, suffered critical to moderate burn injuries when a man threw acid on his nurse wife at Mayo Hospital’s emergency on Wednesday. DIG (Operations) Rai Muhammad Tahir told Dawn that Irfan, a resident of Narang Mandi, came to the medical emergency to see his estranged wife […]
LAHORE: A 20-year-old girl committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a local hostel in the Islampura area on Wednesday. The deceased, Seemab, who hailed from Narang Mandi, had been serving in a local newspaper as a lady reporter for the last three years. She was mentally disturbed as she was not given […]
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