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Daily Archives: October 5, 2010

HRCP concerned at police cruelty against lawyers

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has shown distress at the police cruelty against lawyers on court premises in provincial metropolis that resulted in injuries to many lawyers that also included female lawyers and declared it “manifestly disproportionate and entirely uncalled for”. The HRCP regrets events of the last few days including what […]


Newly-wed woman killed

KARACHI: A newly-wed woman was shot dead at her house, the Sachal police said on Monday. Sugra, who had married Ghulam Muhammad five months ago, was found dead with a bullet in her neck at their house in Bilawal Shah Noorani Goth. Muhammad said he was not at home when the incident took place, and […]


4 men, three girls booked in rape case

SANGHAR: Khipro police booked four men and three girls in a rape case on Monday. The girls were booked for abetting in the crime. A doctor got registered an FIR wherein he stated that Ms Nayab invited the doctor’s niece to her house on September 28, where Ms Farasat and Ms Tahreem were already present. […]


Two married women tortured to death

SIALKOT: Two married women were tortured to death in separate incidents allegedly by their in laws in Sialkot district. Reportedly, accused Waqar killed his wife Zainab Bibi (22) by torturing her severely physical with the help of his other family members over a domestic dispute in Hajipura-Sambrial. Their marriage was held a month ago. On […]


Over Rs2.5bn drawn through Watan cards, says Nadra

KARACHI: Over 225,000 flood-affected families have so far drawn over Rs2.5 billion through the ‘Watan’ cards issued by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), according to an official of the authority. In a statement issued here on Monday, Nadra deputy chief Tariq Malik said that more than 300,000 Watan cards had so far been […]


‘Most qualified and learned’ PPP MNA says: Geo is working on agenda to destabilise Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: “Geo is working on agenda to destabilise Pakistan,” alleged the so-called ‘highly qualified and learned’ PPP legislator, Jamshed Dasti, in the National Assembly on Monday. Dasti, it may be recalled, was recently disqualified by the Supreme Court for contesting the 2008 elections on a fake graduation degree but was again allowed by the PPP […]


KP govt announces Rs 0.3 million for displaced folk singer

By Mushtaq Paracha NOWSHERA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Monday announced Rs300,000 compensation for famous Pashto folk singer Zarsanga whose house was washed away in the recent flooding and also promised to rebuild her house. Following airing of a news item about miserable condition of the noted singer on Geo TV and its publication in […]


PTV introduces new programme

ISLAMABAD: A new ‘live morning show’ of 60 minutes duration on daily basis “SUBH-E-RAUSHAN” was launched here on Monday from PTV Home Islamabad. The show is produced by Farrukh Afzal Malik and anchored by Abida Hameed. According to Syeda Farkhanda Shaheen, Executive Producer, the show would take viewers’ input through live phone calls, while experts […]


Change of editor at English paper

This will be the paper’s fifth editor in the last decade. KARACHI: One of the country’s oldest newspapers, Dawn, saw a change of editors on Oct 4, with its printline (on the back page) formally changing to reflect the transfer to Zaffar Abbas. This is the fifth editor the newspaper has seen in the past […]


Pakistan 2nd most dangerous country for journalists

By Javed Aziz Khan PESHAWAR — At least 162 journalists were killed in Pakistan from January 2000 through September 30, 2010, while in Iraq 510 journalists perished. http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/caii/newsbriefs/2010/10/05/newsbrief-06 Source: Central Asia Online Date:10/5/2010


The Great Media Game

The writer is a development sociologist, and a visiting scholar in the Center for South Asia Studies at University of California, Berkeley. [email protected] In an article on August 27 in The New York Times titled “China’s Discreet Hold on Pakistan’s Northern Borderlands” and a subsequent rejoinder published on September 9, Selig Harrison paints an astoundingly […]


SC orders PEMRA to restore channels on allotted numbers

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman to ensure transmissions and adjusting the numbers of all TV channels according to their ratings and criteria set by it (PEMRA). A three-member Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, […]


PTV introduces new programme

ISLAMABAD: A new ‘live morning show’ of 60 minutes duration on daily basis “SUBH-E-RAUSHAN” was launched here on Monday from PTV Home Islamabad. The show is produced by Farrukh Afzal Malik and anchored by Abida Hameed. According to Syeda Farkhanda Shaheen, Executive Producer, the show would take viewers’ input through live phone calls, while experts […]


‘HR violation in S. Asia after 9/11 increased’

KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Monday said that human rights violation, particularly women’s rights, in the developing countries of South Asia had increased following the tragic incident of 9/11 in the United States. Addressing the seminar organised by the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast), the Asian Human Rights Commission (Hong […]