Discrimination in power supply a constitutional violation

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday allowed Muhammad Ashraf Wathra to continue as deputy governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) after the election commission said it has no objection over his appointment, which was made during its ban. ...

F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday observed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) knew better how to implement Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. The CJP made the observation ...

Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Tuesday warned against administering spurious anti-measles vaccine to children, observing that guilty people would jailed no matter whether they are ministers or advisers. The court issued warning while hearing a ...

Three more measles patients died at a local hospital on Monday, taking the overall death toll in the City to 58. So far 81 children have died of measles in the province. Muhammad Javed, 2, Muhammad Imran. 2, and Shahzeb, six months, breathed their ...

A Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Water and Power told the Lahore High Court on Monday that it would take steps to return the management and control of a 132-KV grid station to the LESCO given to Behria Town Lahore in 2009. He also claimed that ...

Public urged to think critically before casting vote By LAHORE: The speakers at a seminar on Election 2013, Media Code of Ethics and World Press Freedom Day have urged the voters to carefully think about their vote before going to the polling booth ...

LAHORE: While the major political parties have ramped up their electioneering as polling day fast approaches, at the same time a raft of smaller groups, most of them religious, have stepped up campaigns calling for the scrapping of democracy and ...

The city's residents have been given a glimmer of hope that the number of load-shedding hours will be decreased as the Lahore High Court continues grilling officials over the unequal distribution of power not just within the country, but within the ...

Unannounced power cuts of up to four hours are rubbing salt into wounds of powerless public, though authorities have already been carrying out 14-hour announced loadshedding. The national grid is facing over 6,000MW shortfall, around 60 per cent of ...