ISLAMABAD: Six journalists were killed — three of them while performing their duties — and another 73 injured, mostly by police, in the “worst year for journalists in a decade as the media remained under pressure due to government’s laws and threats”, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) said in a report released on […]
PESHAWAR, Dec 30: A TV journalist was shot dead here on Sunday evening. Kamil Mashhadi received two bullets wounds, one to the head and the other to the chin and died on way to the Lady Reading Hospital. According to eyewitnesses, two men came to his house in Mohalla Hajian on Circular Road and called […]
PARACHINAR: Twenty persons, including 13 extremists, were killed as lawlessness reign the restive Kurram Agency for the ninth consecutive day on Sunday. As the political administration seemingly lacking answer to the ongoing skirmishes, local elders, too abandoned extensive efforts amid reports that the 16-member peace committee constituted by the NWFP governor was attempting to strike […]
ISLAMABAD (December 31 2007): Two suspected suicide bombers were killed on Sunday when their bomb exploded prematurely near the residence of a former minister, police said. The attackers were travelling by motorbike to target the residence of Ijaz ul Haq in Haroonabad, said local police chief Zafar Abbas Bokhari. Ijaz ul Haq, a senior leader […]
LONDON, Dec 30: President Pervez Musharraf agreed on Sunday to “consider” international help for a probe into the death of Benazir Bhutto in a conversation with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Downing Street said. Mr Brown spoke to President Musharraf Sunday after a previous call on Friday and stressed the need to hold the January […]
PESHAWAR (December 31 2007): More than a dozen people have died in fresh clashes between heavily armed rival tribes in Parachinar, plagued by sectarian violence, security officials said on Sunday. Sunni and Shiite tribes perched on hills in villages outside the town of Parachinar are using heavy weapons including rockets, mortars, missiles and cannons to […]
LANDI KOTAL, Dec 29: Three CD shops were blown up in Wazir Dhand area of the Khyber Agency here on Friday night, witnesses said. They said that some unidentified men had planted explosives near the shops, adjacent to the Karkhano Market of Peshawar, which went off in the middle of the night. The political authorities […]
TIMERGARA, Dec 29: Elections for the local press club were held here on Saturday. Muhabat Shah, Haleem Asad, Ziaur Rahim, Mohammad Ishaq and Bahramand Sayed were elected as chairman, vice-chairman, general secretary, finance secretary and office secretary, respectively for 2008-9. Hanifullah, Haroon Rashid, Ismail Anjum, Sahib Zada and Ali Shah were elected members of the […]
ISLAMABAD – Interior Ministry official spokesman Brig (Retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema Saturday ruled out PPP demand to carry out the probe into Benazir’s murder case by the international investigation team under the umbrella of the United Nations. Addressing a press conference, Brig (Retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema said, that Benazir’s murder case probe is difficult for […]
* Investigators say four to five kg explosives used, two pistols seized from the crime scene ISLAMABAD: Initial investigations into Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has revealed that suicide bomber who blew himself up close to the former prime minister was a clean-shaven youth unlike traditional bombers who sport beards, it is learnt. Sources close to investigators […]
PESHAWAR: International press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontiers, RSF) has welcomed the unanimous passing of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution condemning all worldwide acts of violence against journalists and calling for their protection in war zones. The Paris-based organisation, which had collaborated with the French Foreign Ministry to draft the […]
KHAR: Unknown miscreants blew up a girls college in Bajaur Agency headquarters Khar late on Thursday, sources said. They said a bomb went off at around 11:00 pm and damage 11 rooms of the college. At several mosques in the agency, the militants have also left warning letters, written in Pashto, asking people to stop […]
ISLAMABAD: Women from a cross section of society on Friday widely condoled and condemned the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairwoman and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Most of the women while talking to Daily Times said that Bhutto’s assassination was an attack on women all across the world, especially the Muslim world. Muttahida […]
KURRUM AGENCY – Amidst the grave continued sectarian violence here in Kurrum Agency another five persons lost their lives in the wake of free usage of heavy weapons between the fighting factions. As per detail amidst the continued sectarian clashes between Shia and Sunni factions here in Kurrum Agency five persons more lost their lives […]
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