KARACHI: Former president of the First Women Bank (FWB), Khatoon has urged the new generation, especially girls that they must make themselves able to compete with the world challenges for empowerment. Minister for Labour, Transport, Industries and Commerce Adil Siddiqui was the chief guest. She informed the audience that despite having 32 percent of women […]
A leading militant mosque in Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad issued a death decree against the staff of the monthly magazine “Octane” for publishing a fashion-shoot entitled “Adam and Eve” that showed two models in revealing costumes. The religious decree, or fatwa, was issued on 16 June 2007 by Maulana Abdul Aziz, head cleric of […]
MARDAN: Police claimed here on Sunday to have arrested a person accused of sending threatening messages to local video centres and net cafes in various parts of the district through cellphon calls. Addressing a press conference, Deputy Superintendent Police Quresh Khan said that lzhar Ali, the owner of a net cafe, informed them that he […]
DISTRICT KHAIRPUR, Sindh, June 17 (PPI): A young journalist was shot dead in Pir Jo Goth near here on Sunday. Nisar Ahmed Solangi, the reporter of Sindhi newspaper Daily Khabroon, aged 30, came to Pir Jo Goth from his village Machhyoon for an urgent peace of work when two armed persons on a motorcycle opened […]
Leadership understands importance of media WASHINGTON: The Press in Pakistan is free and the leadership recognises importance of the media in a democratic dispensation, a spokesman of the Pakistan Embassy wrote in a letter published in an American newspaper on Sunday. Press Minister at the Embassy Akram Shaheedi referred to expansion of independent electronic media […]
KARACHI (June 17 2007): The Sindh government has provided Rs 75 million for Information Technology Department in the next financial year’s budget. According to the break-up, Rs 20 million would be consumed for the establishment of call centres. Rs 10 million have been provided for IT road shows and participation in international affairs and events. […]
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