LAHORE, March 3: Apprehending reaction from extremist religious groups, the Punjab home secretary on Saturday asked cinema houses, theatres and cable operators to immediately stop presenting vulgar shows and programmes that could irritate such elements. The direction was given at a meeting reportedly held at the Civil Secretariat. It was attended by secretaries of the […]
QUETTA, March 13: Balochistan Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mir Abdur Rehman Jamali and opposition members in the provincial assembly have demanded that the federal government should restore advertisements to Dawn. They said curtailing the newspaper’s advertisements was against the principle of freedom of the press. Opposition member Jan Mohammad Buledi raised the issue on Tuesday on […]
MUZAFFARGARH, March 3: The kidnapping of a two-year-old child from Langar Sirai, 15 kilometres from Muzaffargarh, has panicked the locality and residents have stopped their children from going out of houses. Two days ago, two-year-old Raza Hussain went missing from a street outside his house. According to his father, Ghulam Hussnain Rana, his child was […]
Karachi, March 3: The Provincial Transition Wing of Sindh Local Government Department on Saturday notified the rules for conducting the Election of Village and Neighborhood Councils in the province. The rules have been framed in exercise of the powers conferred by Sindh Local Government Ordinance 2001. According to notification, the elections shall be held by […]
ISLAMABAD, March 3: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) came under fire for its failure in checking ‘vulgarity and obscenity’ in programmes being broadcast by private TV channels, as the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting met here on Saturday. Members of the treasury benches and the opposition observed that there was […]
A competition is being held to celebrate Pakistan’s 60th Anniversary, Heinrich Boll’s 90th birthday and the 50th Anniversary of the Goethe-Institut in Pakistan,for women and men up to 30 years of age. Participants are required to choose one of the following topics: – “My Mother, me and my daughter”, – “My aspirations…” – “My first […]
KARACHI, March 4: When she was one, Rasheeda Begum’s late father promised to marry her off to a relative to settle a poker debt. Fifteen years later, the man came to collect his winnings. The teenager’s fight to escape being handed over despite alleged threats to her family is the latest case highlighting how women’s […]
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