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Daily Archives: March 14, 2007

Film exhibitors back strike call

KARACHI, March 13: The Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (South Zone) on Tuesday supported the call for weekly strikes given by its counterpart of the North Region and said the strikes would begin on March 15 and would be observed every Thursday across the country until their demands were met. “We’ll also observe strike on March […]


SJC proceedings keep people glued to TV

ISLAMABAD: People from all segments of society on Tuesday were glued to their seats in offices, homes and elsewhere, not to watch the World Cup opening cricket match, but to be informed about the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) hearing of the presidential reference against Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the suspended Chief Justice of Pakistan. Whether or […]


Ahmad Ali Khan passes away

KARACHI, March 13: Mr Ahmad Ali Khan, the former chief editor of daily Dawn, passed away on Tuesday morning at a local hospital after a protracted illness. He was 83. He left behind his wife, short story writer Hajra Masroor, daughters Naveed Ahmad Tahir and Nausheen Ahmad, three grandchildren and a great grandchild. He was […]


It’s a sub judice matter, says Durrani

ISLAMABAD, March 13: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani has said that actions of certain politicians outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday during the Supreme Judicial Council hearing were politically motivated and tantamount to an attempt to influence the judicial process. Addressing a press conference at the PTV headquarters, Senator Durrani described […]


CPNE’s tributes to pioneer of press freedom

KARACHI (March 14 2007): The President of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) Syed Faseih Iqbal and Secretary General Wamiq A Zuberi have in a joint statement said that the sad demise of veteran editor and journalist Ahmed Ali Khan is a national loss and in his death. The editors community has lost a […]


Govt has empowered women: governor

KASUR, March 14: The government has taken measures through legislation to help women get their rights in society, Governor Khalid Maqbool said while addressing students at the Chunian Degree College for Women on Wednesday. He said the government’s measures had discouraged women’s marriage with the Holy Quran, denial to their share in inheritance and other […]


DI Khan honour killing case: Police scratch their heads over dead couple’s nameless toddler

KARACHI: A woman, who was shot and injured by her younger son in an honour killing case two days ago, died Tuesday at Jinnah hospital. Police are looking for her three other children and want to send her fourth one, a two-year-old, to an Edhi center. Three unidentified men attacked Khateeja alias Toti Jan and […]


Woman, two men stoned, publicly executed

LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), March 14: A woman and two men were publicly executed in Bara on Wednesday on charges of adultery, official sources said. The sources said that a local council of elders, including activists of the Lashkar-i-Islam, accused Allah Noor and Shahzada of the Kukikhel tribe of having illicit relations with a divorced […]