KARACHI (updated on: March 16, 2007, 18:04 PST): The Punjab police on Friday left three staffers injured and almost the entire building ransacked of a TV channel and an English daily in a raid, for unknown reasons, in Islamabad. Police, ransacking the entire infrastructure of the prominent media institutions, attacked the offices of Geo television […]
Summary Urdu Newsletter March 16 to 23 March, 2007-II Date 3/16/2007 Download newsletter vol 5 no-10-ii.pdf
Summary Urdu Newsletter March 16 to 23 March, 2007-I Date 3/16/2007 Download newsletter vol 5 no-10-i.pdf
LAHORE, March 15: Federal Culture Minister Dr G G Jamal has said exhibition of Indian movies in Pakistani cinemas is not all that simple as the ministry has to consult different offices, including the foreign office, in this regard. Mr Jamal was the guest of honour at the first Indo-Pak Theatre festival at the Government […]
WASHINGTON, March 15: Senior Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has apparently confessed to masterminding the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States during a military hearing at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, US officials said on Thursday. The suspect, known by his acronym as KSM, is considered to have been the terrorist […]
ISLAMABAD: Denying that three TV Channels were made off the air on the advice of the Government, Pakistan Electronic Media RegulaÂtory Authority (Pemra) Chairman Iftikhar Rashid declared the airing off the channel was due to a technical fault. Talking to BBC Urdu the other day, Pemra Chairman Iftikhar Rashid denied that three TV chanÂnels were […]
VEHARI, March 15: The ministry of information and Pakistan television authorities could not install a new powerful booster during the last four years in the district and adjoining areas, despite repeated complaints. According to information collected by this correspondent, a powerful Ptv booster had been installed at Mauza Meranpur on Mailsi-Kehrorpaka Road in 1999 at […]
KARACHI, March 15: All 54 cinemas in the southern circuit of the Pakistani film industry comprising Sindh and Balochistan remained closed on Thursday to protest against the government’s failure to curb film piracy, a top official of the Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association (South Zone) said. “The remaining 38 cinema houses in Karachi, besides, eleven cinema […]
LAHORE: The Zakat Department had disbursed Rs 35.8 million for the marriage of 3,060 deserving girls under Marriage Grant during first half of the current fiscal year. Talking to parents of the needy girls, who met him at his office on Wednesday, Punjab Minister for Zakat and Ushr, Mian Khadim Husain Wattoo said welfare of […]
GUJRANWALA, March 16: Punjab Inspector General of Police Ahmad Nasim has ordered his department to stop the registration of cases under the Hudood Ordinance of 1979 and in the future such cases should be registered under the Women’s Protection Bill. In a circular sent to all regional police officers, city police officers and district police […]
HYDERABAD, March 15: Robin Field Smith, the Inspector of Constabulary (Personnel, Training and Diversity), UK, has said that the UK police would help Sindh police mitigate the incidents of honour killings. Mr Smith, part of delegation of UK police and other allied departments currently visiting Sindh to advise on the investigation of karo-kari (honour killing) […]
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