NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, June 16: Budget with an outlay of Rs2,407 million was presented by the Nazim to District Council Naushahro Feroze for 2007-08 on Saturday. An amount of Rs1,747 million had been earmarked for salaries, Rs223 million for non-salary expenses and Rs437 million for the Annual Development Programme. District Nazim Ghulam Rasool Jatoi said that […]
HYDERABAD: The district council session was marred by uproar on Saturday following protest by the opposition when it did not get details of re-appropriation of Rs 360 million funds in budget for the financial year 2006-07. The House, however, in a special session held with its convener Zafar Rajput in the chair, approved the re-appropriation […]
SIALKOT, June 16: Police has failed to arrest the two men who allegedly raped a mentally-retarded girl at gunpoint in the suburbs of Daska on June 14, Thursday. According to an FIR lodged with Daska city police, two vagabonds raped the daughter of a labourer, Muhammad Irshad, at gunpoint when she went to fields to […]
LAKKI MARWAT, June 16: Shopkeepers selling garments and cosmetics for women have received letters in which they have been warned of dire consequences if they don’t close down their businesses immediately. A shopkeeper said he had received the letter on Saturday morning containing ‘a word from the Taliban’. “The visit of women to the cloth […]
KARACHI, June 16: The Pakistan People’s Party has challenged the Pemra Amendment Ordinance and the ban on live coverage of the reception of the Chief Justice of Pakistan by the bar associations. The President of People’s Lawyers Forum, Shahdat Awan, filed a constitutional petition (D-1305/2007) under Article 199 of the constitution in the High Court […]
Karachi:Sindh CM Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim has strongly condemned the conferral of knighthood by the British Queen to the ‘blasphemous’ writer Salman Rushdie and said that the monarch has hurt the sentiments of the Muslims. In a statement issued on Saturday, Arbab said that after the conferral of knighthood to the condemned writer Salman Rushdie, […]
ISLAMABAD (June 17 2007): Minister for Information Technology, Awais Leghari on Saturday said a legal notice, under defamation law, has been served to a news agency which released a news item to some newspapers regarding his alleged involvement in Kafila Siddiqui case. Speaking on a point of order in the National Assembly, he said, “I […]
ISLAMABAD (June 17 2007): The cleric at Lal Masjid has issued a death decree against magazine staff for publishing a fashion-shoot advertisement entitled “Adam and Eve”. The decree, known as a fatwa, against the chief editor, publisher and other staffers of an English language magazine called Octane is the latest challenge by the mosque’s clerics […]
KARACHI, June 16: A week-long film festival to pay homage to the legendary actor of the Pakistani silver screen, the late Mohammad Ali, is set to start at the Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi, on Sunday. Prominent artistes and singers including Nadeem, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Mohiyuddin and Izhar Qazi will attend the inaugural ceremony at […]
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