KARACHI, June 4: Secretary-general of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Iqbal Haider has expressed dismay over harassment and victimisation, by the government and its agencies, of journalists, editors, owners and publishers and the scholar of international repute Dr Ayesha Siddiqua, who was prevented from holding a ceremony for launching her book “Military Inc” in […]
ISLAMABAD: District and Sessions Court Judge Mirza Rafiuz Zaman on Monday accepted bail application of eight-year-old Danish Ali, who is facing charges of beating seven-year-old Umair. Golra police had arrested Ali. Lawyer Muhammad Ajmal Khattak moved his bail application. The judge accepted the bail and said the police had violated Juvenile Ordinance by arresting Ali. […]
KARACHI, June 4: A man has sold his daughter into marriage for Rs50,000 and plans the same fate for his second daughter in order to settle gambling debts, Dawn has learnt. Former garment factory worker Abdul Razzak, 50, reportedly sold his daughter to a beggar after the disposal of his entire household’s articles did not […]
MULTAN, June 4: A seven-year-old child, who was sodomised by two brothers some 10 days back, is facing complications on account of not being allowed treatment facility at private and state-run hospitals by the accused, who are in cahoots with the police. Reports said that Nasir Hussain of Mehndipur, Multan district, was allegedly sodomized by […]
HYDERABAD: More than two dozen women belonging to Sikandarabad area of Tando Adam on Monday staged a protest demonstration against the non-arrest of killers of a woman, Sania, who was killed on May 3 allegedly by her in-laws and husband. The protesters led by the mother of the slain woman, Islam Khatoon, gathered outside the […]
KOHAT, June 4: Two bomb blasts destroyed two CD shops in different parts of the city on Sunday night, but no loss of life was reported. The first blast took place at 11.30pm in Bazaar-i-Mustafa, blowing up a shop owned by Shahid, though he had already declared that he would soon switch over to some […]
President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday promulgated an Ordinance further to amend the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance 2002. The Ordinance called the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Amendment) Ordinance, 2007, shall come into force at once. Following is the text of the Ordinance: Ordinance No. XXVI of 2007. An ORDINANCE To further […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists, lawyers, political parties, NGOs and other civil society bodies throughout the country and abroad have strongly condemned the new Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Amendment) Ordinance 2007 promulgated by President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday. They urged the government to take back the decision, which they said was aimed at curbing the freedom […]
Karachi:Journalists announced a countrywide, Black Day on June 7 against increasing restraints on the functioning of media in the country. The announcement was made at the media organisations meeting, held in Islamabad. The protest will include demonstrations throughout the province of Sindh, especially in Karachi. Rallies will be staged, black flags will be hoisted and […]
Five people, including the vice president of Pakistan’s Tribal Union of Journalist (TUJ), were killed on June 2 when the vehicle they were travelling in was blown up by a roadside improvised explosive device possibly detonated by remote control device. The bomb blast occurred as Noor ul Hakeem, correspondent of Urdu language daily “Pakistan” was […]
Transmission of three leading private television news channels were intermittently blocked in many parts of Pakistan since June 1, apparently in an attempt by the government to control the media coverage of crisis that has engulfed the country since President Pervez Musharraf suspended the Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and filed a judicial […]
The Pakistan government has prohibited independent television channels from televising programmes, including live talk shows and discussions, on the judicial crisis facing the country following presidential reference against Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A letter issued to television channels the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) said that live talk shows and discussions […]
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