Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan)

Type: City

Name: Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan)

Latitude: 30.969999

Longitude: 72.470001

population: 69,084

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

United States funded dairy project boosts rural economy of Pakistan

(PPI-OT): The USAID Dairy Project has spurred growth in Pakistan’s rural economy by helping women farmers increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods. Realizing the pivotal role rural women play in Pakistan’s livestock sector, USAID is creating ... [Published Pakistan Newswire - 2 hours ago]

Entities: United States Agency For International Development, Pakistan, Livestock

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Four Women among 9 Killed in Mishaps

Byline: Our Staff Reporter TOBA TEK SINGH/GUJRANWALA -- At least nine persons including four women and two minor girls were killed and nine others injured in separate incidents of violence, enmity and mishaps over the past 24 hours. According to detail, ... [Published HighBeam Research - May 21 2013]

Entities: Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan), Gujranwala, Antagonism

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Birth anniversary celebrations: ‘Manto was much more than a controversial writer’

LAHORE:“In early ‘50s Manto predicted a close alliance between America and the Pakistani mullahs to defeat the Soviets,” said Shahid Nadeem, the writer of the play Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh, staged by the Ajoka Theatre Group at the Alhamra Arts Council here ... [Published The Express Tribune - May 18 2013]

Entities: Majeed Amjad, Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Highest number of women elected on general seats belong to PML-N

ISLAMABAD, May 16: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has the highest number of women legislators elected on general seats in the recent elections, and that too from Punjab, but not a single woman could win in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.Analysts and rights activists ... [Published DAWN Group - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pakistan Muslim League (N), Sumaira Malik, Elections

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

United States Agency For International Development

US-funded dairy project boosts rural economy of Pakistan

Staff Report ISLAMABAD: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Dairy Project has spurred growth in Pakistans rural economy by helping women farmers increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods. Realising the pivotal role rural ... [Published Daily Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Pakistan, United States Agency For International Development, Livestock

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan)

Over 100pc turnout at 49 polling stations

A report of Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has made a stunning revelation, strengthening the voices of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of massive rigging in general elections, that the voter turnout at 49 polling stations of Nation Assembly constituencies ... [Published The Nation Pakistan - May 14 2013]

Entities: Elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan), Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan), Rajanpur (Pakistan), Narowal (Pakistan)

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Women barred from casting votes

TOBA TEK SINGH: Women were not allowed to cast votes at polling stations No-167 and No-168 at Chak 295/JB. People told newsmen that elders of Rajput clan had not allowed women to cast votes in the elections since the creation of Pakistan. ... [Published The News International - May 12 2013]

Entities: Chak (Pakistan), Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan), Pakistan

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Manto’s birth anniversary goes unnoticed amidst election fever

As the nation was preoccupied with polling and elections excitement, the 101 st birth anniversary of famous literary figure Saadat Hasan Manto went by without much ado.Saadat Hasan Manto was born on May 11, 1912 in Samrala in the Ludhiana district of ... [Published Pakistan Today - May 11 2013]

Entities: Saadat Hasan Manto, Amritsar, Elections, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan)

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Sarabit Singh’s death is reminiscent of Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh’

Editor?s note:$ All passages in italics are excerpted from ?Toba Tek Singh?, a short story written by Saadat Hasan Manto, published in 1955.It’s impossible not to think of Manto. In the part of Punjab that Bhikhiwind lies, (Sarabjit Singh’s hometown) ... [Published Firstpost.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Sarabjit Singh, Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan), Bhikhiwind (India), Pakistan

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 3 reports

Imran says he prefers death to seeking alms from any country

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Sunday said he would prefer death to seeking alms from any other country.Addressing a gathering of party workers at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal, the PTI chief said nations could only prosper if decisions were ... [Published The News International - May 06 2013]

Entities: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan), Pakistan, Imran Khan

First reported May 04 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 1 reports

Ashfaq Fateh, Pakistan‘s Christians and Muslims mourn the death of an icon of Christian human rights

In a message to ANS, his colleague, photographer, Ahsan Sadaqat, who accompanied him on many of his reporting assignments, wrote, “It is with very heavy heart that this correspondence is being sent to communicate to you about the death of Mr. Ashfaq Fateh ... [Published Assist News Service - May 04 2013]

Entities: Pakistan, Human Rights, Toba Tek Singh (Pakistan), Hurricane Sandy

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Sahiwal: Arrest order of former MPA issued over fake degree

PML (N) finds the puzzle of NA 189 hard to solve if it allots ticket to SHEIKH WAQAS AKRAM as SHEIKH YAQOOB ...PPP's Haji Muhammad Ishaq, PML-N's Khalid Warraich, PTI's Haji Khalid Mehmood Chatha, Jamaat-e-Islami's Qari Muhammad Asif Gujjar and independent ... [Published Dunya News - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Fake, Arrests, Pakistan, Muhammad Khan Junejo

Quotes

The news came to light when Faheem "s brother-in law, Rana Afzal reached the city on Monday but his father-in law (Faheem" s father) Rana Shamshad denied him entry into the house...

Family of Davis'' victim shifts to Pak''s Toba Tek Singh [Published Topnews.in - May 17 2011]

He describes himself as coming "from a family, which is one of the leading industrial families of Pakistan." For services rendered, one supposes, Nawaz Sharif made him a minister of state and gave him the lucrative position of Chairman of the Board of Investment...

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