Mianwali, India News

Mianwali in Pakistan's western Punjab lies in the shadow of rugged mountains. On the other side of the range lies the North West Frontier Province where the army is engaged in a bloody offensive against the Taliban.

The Lahore High Court Thursday restored officiating tehsil nazim Mianwali and 18 members of the tehsil council by suspending the order of secretary Local Government and Rural Development .

Saturday, June 27, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE Punjab Assembly reverberated with debate about water shortage issue on Friday and Senior Minister Raja Riaz assured the parliamentarians that reduction of water in dams was because of less melting of ice in May and the issue might be resolved by the coming Tuesday.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE Lahore High Court chief justice has issued transfers/postings orders of ten senior civil judges and as many additional district and sessions judges of Punjab subordinate judiciary.

Saturday, June 20, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE INSPECTOR General of Police Tariq Saleem Dogar has stressed upon the district police officers posted near the borders of the province to take strict measures for preventing the entry of terrorists into Punjab with the assistance of members of Mohalla committees and joint task teams.

Monday, June 08, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE TAKING action on the reports of Punjab Chief Minister Monitoring Team on Education, the district officers of Education Department have stopped annual increments of 446 absentee teachers and deductions have been made from the salaries of 2,905 absentee teachers.

MIANWALI: The suspected suicide attacker entering Punjab from NWFP province has been arrested from Esakhel, DSP Moosakhel Malik Wajid Hussain said Wednesday.

President asks government to release Rs 500m for IDPs * President's spokesman says Zardari has asked govt to step up relief work with emphasis on transparency, monitoring, accountability * President terms IDPs heroes of war Staff Report ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday asked the government to immediately release... PM directs NWFP ...

KANDIYAN: A plane of Pakistan Air Force crashed on a rooftop of a house in Moosa Wali area of Piplan, killing one woman, injuring at least six people, the sources said Friday.

SARGODHA: The government of Punjab has called Rangers in Mianwali and Bhakkar districts, bordering with NWFP, to avert possible terror attack.

In this April 24, 2009 picture, Pakistani Taliban leave Buner, Pakistan. Coordinated attacks - along with threats to women, shops selling CDs and barbers - suggest that the Taliban are bleeding out of their traditional havens in the Northwest Frontier Province into Pakistan's Punjab heartland, home to more than half of the country's 180 million ...

Inspector General Police Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar has vowed to overcome gulf between the people and police by holding open courts to listen to the public grievances and announced to pay surprise visits to different police stations around the provinces.

Thursday, April 30, 2009 By Israr Khan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set to finalise a draft of long-term National Steel Policy in the next two weeks after consultation with provincial mining departments.

Sunday, April 26, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE revised wheat procurement strategy has yielded positive results for farmers as price of the commodity increased in various grain markets of the province on Saturday.

There is a constant debate about Islamic Punishments with regard to present video which shook the whole world with its brutality and cruelty.Talibans say that they follow Deoband School of thought which ultimately follow Imam Abu Hanifa .We have never seen such thing in Deoband school.

Five people drowned and nine went missing Tuesday when a small boat capsized in eastern Pakistan, police said.

MIANWALI: Fourteen persons, including women and children drowned on Tuesday when a boat capsized in the Indus River near Kundian, the police said.

MIANWALI: Fifteen people have been drowned when a boat capsized in Indus River on Tuesday.

Tuesday, April 07, 2009 By Our Correspondent LAHORE THE city witnessed rain here on Monday while the Met Office predicted partly cloudy weather with chances of thunderstorm and rain for Tuesday .

Various parts of the country including the City received intermittent rain on Friday with experts predicting the wet spell to continue during next 24 hours.