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Policy guidelines bearing fruit as FIA tightens noose around human traffickers

  • ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (APP): Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has apprehended more than 1,969 human smugglers/traffickers including 89 most wanted such criminals under its special campaign during last two years. Of the total, the Agency arrested 812 human smugglers (785 human traffickers and 27 most wanted ones) during 2014 and 1131 human smugglers (1095 human traffickers […]

  • 14 girls primary schools to be upgraded

    SARGODHA,Oct 26 (APP)-Punjab government has approved the upgradation summary of fourteen government girl’s primary schools upto middle standard in the district. According to a spokesman of Education department,provincial government has given directions for recruitment of 97 female teachers and provision of related facilities at these schools within a month. These primary schools exist in Chak […]

  • Ahsan Iqbal inaugurates breast cancer center at PIMS

    ISLAMABAD, Oct 26 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal Wednesday said that the government was making all out efforts prevent and treat cancer disease in the country. While inaugurating Breast Cancer Center at Pakistan Instituteof Medical Sciences (PIMS) here, he said, the center would be equipped with modern facilities on […]

  • Police arrests 6 criminals

    SUKKUR, Oct 26 (APP): Shikarpur police Wednesday claimed to have arrested six-member gang of street criminals and recovered 10 stolen motorcycles, household articles and other valuables from their possession here. According to SSP Shikarpur Umar Tufail, on tip-off, Stuart Ganj and New Faudjari police conducted a raid and succeeded to arrest a six-member gang including […]

  • SALU to restart M.A (Previous) Journalism from Annual Exam

    SUKKUR, Oct 26 (APP): Controller of examinations, Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU), Khairpur, Professor Dr Syed Asif Ali Shah Wednesday announced that Vice Chancellor SALU, Dr Parveen Shah had allowed to restart and conduce of the M.A (Previous) Journalism for external candidates from the Annual Examinations 2016 on the request of people of Sukkur and […]

  • ‘Only one dengue case reported so far from Ravi Town’

    LAHORE, Oct 26 (APP)- Secretary Labour and Human Resource department Punjab, Sohail Shehzad has directed deep sweep surveillance of dengue larvae in UC-2 of Ravi Town and walled city area as well as comparative data of two years to evaluate the output. He also directed efficiency and performance monitoring offield teams on daily basis.He said […]