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Abstract | Yoghurt is considered a nutritional food rich in proteins and other essential minerals. Poor quality milk having Antibiotic Resistance resides threat to one health. Antibiotic Resistance is the main issue that affects the livestock, humans and environment. Antibiotic Resistance occurs due to the use of excessive amount of antibiotics for the growth and development of livestock. 90 samples of each weigh about 50 grams have been collected from Lahore and brought to University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore in a Laboratory and applied HPLC technique on samples and found residues of Penicillin and oxytetracycline in different percentages (11% and 9%, respectively) and percentage of both combine Penicillin and oxytetracycline is 3%. In a yoghurt sample, the highest penicillin was found as 13.95 µg/Kg, the lowest penicillin was detected as 7.07 µg/Kg, the highest oxytetracycline was observed as 306.73 µg/Kg, the lowest oxytetracycline was figured out as 197.77 µg/Kg. The result is statistically significant and against the Null Hypothesis. It shows that significant difference has been estimated among all of the positive samples of yogurt. We found the commonly used antibiotics (Penicillin and oxytetracycline) in routine food i.e., in yoghurt samples collected from open market of Lahore, District of Punjab Province, Pakistan. Novelty Statement | The detection of antibiotics (ABs) residues of penicillin and oxytetracycline in yoghurt through HPLC have been detected for the first time in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan as a research study.