* Stresses efforts for revival of local govt system, addressing the needs of IDPs, curbing terrorism and intolerance LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the fast deterioration of state of affairs of the country and urged the government to return to the task of governance and address the problems […]
RAWALPINDI: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Health has recommended the construction of separate jails for female prisoners and also proposed to shift the inmates waiting for capital punishment and pregnant prisoners to their respective districts and provinces. Chairperson of the committee Senator Kalsoom Kausar along with Minister of State for Postal Services Razaq Khan, Senator […]
DADU: A peasant held a demonstration along with members of his family outside the press club here on Sunday in protest against a local wadera who, he alleges, forced the nikkah of his three-year-old daughter with a seven-year-old boy. Shadi Khan Ghan of Mitho Jhatiyal village near Khairpur Nathan taluka, told journalists that Rais Sahib […]
The writer is web editor at The Express Tribune [email protected] The PML-N is threatening a long march against the appointment of the NAB chairman because it believes that the appointee is close to the PPP. Law Minister Babar Awan is busy challenging the Sharif brothers to go ahead and carry out a long march, at […]
By Syed Bukhar Shah PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has decided to approach the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and international bodies of journalists to register complaints against what it termed one-sided and baseless stories, analysis and editorials against the PPP government, its leaders and workers by the […]
By Shabbir Sarwar LAHORE: Since its emergence mass media has been called the mirror of society, because it reflects or shows what comes before it, just like an actual mirror. But now this perception is considered stereotype and limited because of the fact that the social role of the media has been modified and enhanced. […]
By Ahmad Hassan ISLAMABAD: Giving voice to his government’s stand on the Supreme Court directive for a written assurance that the government will not withdraw the executive order restoring the judiciary, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in his televised address to the nation on Sunday night said: “When the prime minister says something, whether […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement candidate Saifuddin Khalid swept to victory in PS-94 by-election by getting 91,397 votes of the 92,125 votes cast on Sunday, according to unofficial results. While the Awami National Party had on Saturday night announced boycott of the poll, citing that its demand for holding the by-election under […]
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