A flood wave in the River Sutlej will pass through district Vehari in the next 24 hours while the local administration has ordered the residents to evacuate the area Aug 18, 2008
Dawn News reported that thousands of people from three villages in Kasur district are marooned in flooding caused by 173,000 cusecs of additional water released by India into River Sutlej. The channel said that crops on thousands of acres have been damaged by the floodwater. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
India returns body of Pakistani who died in custody after crossing border May 10, 2008
Akram's brother, Muhammad Aslam, said his brother was mentally ill and had gone missing Feb. 9 from Kasur, a Pakistani town near the border. "Akram had mistakenly crossed the border," he said. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
The Health Ministry on Wednesday declared 22 locally-manufactured medicines injurious to health and banned their sale. Dec 27, 2007
The drugs whose registration has been cancelled on account of being substandard include Opal labs Himoxin 250mg capsules, Swiss Pharmas Sulphazine cream, Epoch Pharmaceuticals Bicolax 5mg tablets, Standard Companys Paracetamol 120mg/5ml syrup, Searles Gravinate tablets, Neomedixs Hemorose-f syrup, Webros Wixime 100mg/5ml suspension, Askari Kasur Askprol tablets, m/s ideal tracer injection, Murfy Ampicin capsules, m/s flow pharmaceuticals, ulticap-m tablets, Kurrum Pharmas aqua pro... (Daily Times, Pakistan)
100-car caravan on way to Islamabad, Police lodge cases against arrested PPP activists Nov 14, 2007
The PPP motorcade departed from Lahore towards Kasur, party official Shah Mahmoud Qureshi told AFP. There is a caravan of more than 100 cars heading out of Lahore. We are on our way, Shah said. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Ali: Pakistan at Sixty Oct 27, 2007
Three weeks later, more than 100,000 people gathered in the Punjabi city of Kasur to observe the 250th anniversary of the death of the great 17th-century poet Bulleh Shah, one in a distinguished line of Sufi poets who denounced organised religion and orthodoxy. For him a mullah could be compared to a barking dog or a crowing cock. (Zmag.org)
Nation's blasphemy law criticized for ambiguities, improper use Jan 27, 2007
Martha Bibi, who lives in the small village of Kot Nanka Singh in Pakistan's Kasur District, was taken into custody after she went to a team of Muslims who are building a mosque and asked about the construction materials the group had borrowed. The report comes from the international Christian human rights group as well as Assist News Service. (WorldNetDaily)
