* Journalists, civil society protesters warn emergency rule also discouraging investment ISLAMABAD: The journalists of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad continued their protest on Sunday against media curbs and the imposition of emergency rule in the country. The journalists staged a peaceful protest demonstration in front of the offices of a private TV […]
BADIN: Local journalists under the banner of Union of Journalists, Electronic and Media Association Badin held a protest meeting to condemn the government for shutting down Geo and ARY news channels here on Sunday. A joint meeting of the district press club and district union of journalists was held in the press club with its […]
* ‘We Oppose Emergency in Pakistan’ biggest Facebook protest group from Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Defying a growing crackdown on dissent by President Pervez Musharraf, young Pakistanis are using blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook to hit back at a state of emergency. Plans for “flash” protests in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and other cities are […]
The community of journalists plans to stage a big protest demonstration on Tuesday as part of their ongoing protest against curbs placed on the print and electronic media and the closure of two TV channels – Geo and Ary. Protest processions will be taken out across the country on the call of Pakistan Federal Union […]
PESHAWAR: Reporters sans Frontières (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, is shocked at the murder of the widow of Hayatullah Khan, a journalist slain last year. She was killed in the early hours of Saturday by a bomb planted next to her bedroom outside her home in Mir Ali, North Waziristan. Her five children, aged 2 […]
ISLAMABAD: Journalists throughout the country continued their protest Sunday against shutting down of Geo TV and ARY Digital as well as curbs on the media. Hundreds of journalists, members of civil society, students, political workers and human rights activists gathered in Islamabad and chanted slogans against the ban on the TV channels. Addressing the protest […]
ISLAMABAD (November 19 2007): Journalists, members of civil society, human rights and political activists continued on Sunday protest against ban on two independent news TV channels as well as curbs on media. Journalists condemned the murder of the widow of a slain tribal journalist who was killed in a bomb attack in the tribal region […]
KARACHI: Veteran art performer and actor Shafi Muhammad Shah was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the Gizri Graveyard, Defence Phase IV. The 57-year old actor was born in a town called Kandiaro in Nushero Feroz. He left a widow, a son and two daughters, besides a large number of fans. “It […]
ISLAMABAD (November 19 2007): Journalists, members of civil society, human rights and political activists continued on Sunday protest against ban on two independent news TV channels as well as curbs on media. Journalists condemned the murder of the widow of a slain tribal journalist who was killed in a bomb attack in the tribal region […]
SIALKOT, Nov 18: A woman and her daughter were allegedly raped by a vagabond who, along with some accomplices, abducted them at Mitraanwali village in Daska. Reports said three armed men, including Zaheer and Tanveer, abducted on Saturday a woman from a bus stop and took her to an outhouse where Zaheer raped her at […]
LARKANA: Sindh Educational Development Society Larkana on Sunday organized here a seminar on “Violence against women is inhuman-stop it”. It was presided over by Apa Tahira Baloch a Child Rights Committee (CRC) Coordinator here at Knowledge Centre. Speaking on the occasion she said ego and ignorance were the main causes of domestic violence against women. […]
KOHAT, Nov 18: Local Taliban on Sunday released the chairman of All-Pakistan Human Rights Organisation in Darra Adam Khel, in the frontier region of Kohat. The district coordination officer and political agent Kamran Zeb told Dawn on Sunday that Habibur Rehman Orakzai had been released unharmed and without payment of any ransom. Mr Orakzai was […]
ATTOCK, Nov 18: There are 50 undertrial juvenile prisoners, including a girl, in the district jail Attock and most of them have exceeded the maximum detention period applicable before conviction, a non-governmental organisation said. Society for the Protection of Rights of the Child (Sparc) executive director Qindeel Shujaat and coordinator Asiya Arif, who visited the […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Museum is being established here in the premises of Shakarparian to reflect and promote Pakistan’s cultural identity. The design for the museum was approved recently through a competition organised to encourage architects by the Department of Archaeology and Museums in collaboration with the Pakistan Council of Architects and Town Planners (PCATP), officials […]
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