KHAIRPUR: A man allegedly wounded his wife by attacking her with an axe over Karo-Kari and later with the connivance of police buried her body quietly after she died in a hospital two weeks back. The News has learnt that 15 days ago Shahzado seriously wounded his wife Khairan. She was admitted to the Chandka […]
Karachi:The City District Council, on Monday unanimously demanded that the British government rescind the knighthood conferred upon Salman Rushdie, the author of the blasphemous book ‘Satanic Verses.’ The treasury and opposition benches of the City Council once again regained their unity and unanimity of views on condemning the conferral of knighthood to the Britain-settled writer […]
The subject of “extraordinary rendition”, the term used by US officials to give a glossy veneer to the repulsive practice of abduction, transportation to secret cells in third countries and torture of high value detainees (HVDs) authorised by the highest in the US administration, has come up again. In the US terminology, HVDs stands for […]
MULTAN, June 17: The Multan Child Protection Bureau has rehabilitated a boy of a broken home who had developed masochistic tendency if several marks of razor-cut on his body are something to be believed. In his 13 years of life, Hanif has been through the pangs of domestic violence, sexual abuse, begging for living and […]
WANA: The Taliban have banned TV and video CDs in public in the Wazir areas of South Waziristan, warning that strict punishment will be meted out to violators. A pamphlet issued by Mujahideen Waziristan and Aman (Peace) Committee chief Qasim Khan declared that the decision would take effect from Wednesday (June 20). “No tea shop […]
ISLAMABAD: The PEMRA on Monday closed down a satellite TV channel and two FM radio stations operating illegally in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a PEMRA press release said. A PEMRA enforcement team impounded equipment and sealed the premises of the unauthorised satellite TV station in Sunghar Village in Dhirkot. The illegal channel was interrupting the […]
KARACHI, June 18: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has condemned the murder of a young journalist in Sindh and suspected kidnapping of a senior reporter in Balochistan over the past two days and demanded action against people behind the crimes. Nisar Ahmed Solangi, who worked for a Sindhi daily, was gunned down in […]
KARACHI, June 18: A meeting of the Karachi Bar Association regretted on Monday that the owners of certain electronic channels had compromised press freedom in the wake of the promulgation of the tougher new restrictions under the Pemra Ordinance although the lawyers fraternity had offered to the media free legal aid and full support against […]
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