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Daily Archives: March 29, 2007

Meeting of District Council Kashmore on Saturday

Kashmore: The District Naib Nazim and Convenor District Council Kashmore Haji Noor Mohammad Khoso has convened the meeting of District Council Kashmore on Saturday March 31st 2007 at District Government Complex. In the meeting, the establishment of Micro Finance Bank of District Government Kashmore through Public Private partnership, project of up-gradation of Government Girls Higher […]


Urdu translation of Babar Nama launched at KU

KARACHI: Historians have said that Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babar, founder of the vast Mughal Empire in India, was a brave soldier, able administrator, poet, lover of nature and above all had a good understanding of human nature. Speaking at the launching ceremony of the Urdu translation of ëWaqa-i-Babar (Babar Nama or Tuzk-e-Babri) at the Audio-Visual Centre […]


PHPL TV: Pemra plea withdrawn

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) withdrew on Wednesday its petition from the Supreme Court against the consent orders of Sindh High Court (SHC) for the grant of licence to the Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt) Limited (PHPL) to establish a satellite television broadcast station. Advocate Abdul Rauf, the counsel for Pemra, informed a […]


Police torture on newsmen, lawyers: LHC orders video records of CCTV

LAHORE : While holding an enquiry into police torture on journalists and bar members during the demonstration against the suspension of Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Syed Zahid Hussain of the Lahore High Court (LHC) directed the Registrar Inquiry to produce the video recording of close circuit TVs installed in the LHC premises. Earlier, the […]


CPJ concerned over media curbs

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed concern over the deteriorating media environment in Pakistan, including business retaliation and outright attacks on media companies. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the media watchdog group noted that “Pakistan’s largest independent English-language media group, the Dawn Group of Newspapers, distributed a letter on Friday from […]


Writer remembered

HYDERABAD: Speakers paid rich tributes to late short story writer Prof Syed Zafar Hassan for his services for literature and geography on his 9th death anniversary on Wednesday. The anniversary was organised by the Sindh University chapter of the Sindhi Adabi Sangat in collaboration with Institute of Sindhology in Jamshoro. Sindh University Vice-Chancellor Dr Mazharul […]


Women freed after forced confession

ISLAMABAD, March 29: A confrontation between the government and hard-line religious leaders in the federal capital eased to some extent on Thursday when students of Madressah Hafsa released three kidnapped women and a six-month-old baby with a threat that they could be picked up again if their demand for release of a former Inter-Services Intelligence […]


30 more women rehabilitation centres to be set up

ISLAMABAD: The Women Development Ministry has approved establishment of 30 ‘Women Centres’ in country to provide rehabilitation and shelter facilities to destitute women. Sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that keeping in view the dire need of women shelter homes. The ministry has finalised to build more centres all over the country so that […]


Cops play robbers with CDGK land

* 200 acres of over 400 plots near Rehri Goth were sold under alleged police patronage to people from nearby slums two years ago only to be taken back by the CDGK about 18 months later KARACHI: The city government proudly announced last week that it had cleared encroachments from an area where it was […]