By: Ashraf Javed LAHORE — A 9-year-old girl was found dead after being raped by unidentified kidnappers, a day after the City police refused of registering her kidnapping case here in Shadbagh area, police sources said on Thursday. Police investigators said that unidentified kidnappers strangled Eesha Hussain to death after committing gang-rape in the densely […]
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By Ejaz Haider The writer was a Ford Scholar at the Programme in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at UIUC (1997) and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Studies Programme. Saturday May 28 wasn’t much fun. My flight had been cancelled on a sunny day and the thought of driving back […]
After days of speculations sparked by the statement of Admiral Mike Mullen to the US media that an operation in North Waziristan is imminent, the army has denied it. Pakistan has been under intense pressure by the US to launch an operation in the conflict-ridden tribal agency, believed to be the nest of the Afghan […]
KARACHI: The Awami National Party (ANP) on Thursday backed the strike call for Friday against increasing loadshedding and outages. The call was given by the CBA of the Karachi Electric Supply Company in protest against the recent sacking of over 4,000 workers of the utility. The ANP leader appealed to the business community and traders […]
LAHORE: The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) on Thursday called off its strike against poor security arrangements at courts. A decision to the effect was taken at a general house meeting of the bar keeping in view sufferings of the litigants. The bar leaders also expressed their satisfaction over security measures taken by the police, however, […]
Fasahat Mohiuddin Karachi: The Deputy Convenor of MQM’s Coordination Committee, Dr Farooq Sattar, demanded that the government address the ongoing energy crisis on a priority basis and ensure that all taxable income be taxed in the federal budget of 2011-2012, which is to be presented by Federal Finance Minister Hafeez Sheikh today. Addressing a press […]
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of PML-N led by Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday to offer condolence to the president over the death of his father Hakim Ali Zardari. They offered fateha and prayed to Almighty Allah for granting eternal peace to the departed soul. Primarily purpose […]
LAHORE: Police found two bodies — one of a minor girl and the other of a young man — who were murdered in separate incidents in the provincial capital on Thursday. The body of nine-year-old girl, identified as Esha, was found in an abandoned cold storage near Barkat Stop in Shadbagh. Shadbagh police said the […]
Karachi: Mubarak Shah Zuberi, a prominent social figure of Karachi and the Pakistani community in the US, died here on Thursday. He had been under treatment at a hospital for multiple illnesses for the past one week. His funeral procession will start from his residence in Askari-II and the Namaz-e-Janza will be held at Rehmani […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) deposited Rs. 13.56 billion in the FY 2009-10 to the national exchequer, while telecom sector contributed Rs.109.05 billion in the form of taxes. According to the Quarterly Report 2011 issued by PTA here on Thursday the contribution of telecom sector to national exchequer through taxes, duties and regulatory charges kept […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) has announced to launch a ‘Social Innovation Fund’ with an amount of Rs 20 million in order to support the social innovation projects of the country and to encourage the youth for coming up with projects having positive social impacts. P@SHA president Jehan Ara announced to launch the fund […]
* Programme a mix of live discussions, calls, programmes focussing on current religio-political, social trends PESHAWAR: Sabaoon, a 55-minute-long Pashto language social awareness programme, went on air Wednesday from FM 101 and a few other stations of the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussein participated in a live discussion […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: In a rare show of impunity, Pemra ignored the directions and recommendations of the Standing Committees on Communication and Broadcasting of both the NA and Senate on lifting ban on the most popular sports channel Geo Super which was closed 59 days ago. The NA committee that met on April 19 with […]
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