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Daily Archives: June 13, 2011

Film competition: Students’ take on anti-corruption

By Rahib Raza Six out of 50 short films will be publicly screened. LAHORE: More than 50 student teams from across Pakistan have registered for a 15-minute film making competition held by Transparency International Pakistan (TIP). The entries were received after a series of seminars, workshops, debates and poster competitions in major cities on the […]


In-laws murder and secretly bury expecting woman

By Shamsul Islam The servant, Sarwar, told police officials that the family kept beating Sumera even after she had died. FAISALABAD: A pregnant woman was allegedly tortured to death by her husband and five in-laws for wanting to visit her parent’s house on Sunday. According to police officials, Chak No105-GB Sadar Jaranwala resident Sumera, 20, […]


Network Pakistan hosts Int’l Social Media Summit

KARACHI: Over 200 bloggers from across Pakistan interacted with their fellows from Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, USA and Netherlands at Network Pakistan’s first-ever international social media summit. The event began with a panel discussion on ‘Education and Good Governance, Women and Social Activism in New Era of Media’, and ‘Monetizing Your Social Media Space’. These discussions […]


Artisans awarded as Lok Mela concludes

ISLAMABAD: The 10-day folk festival of Pakistan popularly known as ‘Lok Mela’, which started on June 3, concluded on Sunday here at Shakaparian with a prestigious award distribution ceremony. The mega cultural event was organised by Lok Virsa (National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Ms Nafeesa Shah, MNA and […]


Another journalist gunned down

Karachi: Three people, including a journalist and an 11-year-old child, were killed in separate incidents in the city on Sunday. Ayaz, 32, chief editor of a weekly newspaper, was shot dead in North Karachi in the Sir Syed police limits. Police said that they received information on Sunday afternoon that a man had been shot […]


A journalist killed, 8 injured in Peshawar blasts

Journalist Asfandyar Abid Naveed, 35, reporter of Daily “Akhbar-i-Khyber”, was killed and eight other journalists were injured when two blasts ripped through military cantonment’s Khyber Super Market, a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan late night on June 11, 2011. Around 39 people were killed and […]


Six Rangers men to be tried under anti-terror law

By Imran Ayub KARACHI: Six personnel of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, who had allegedly shot dead an unarmed youth on June 8, would be tried under the anti-terror law, as police investigators claimed to have incorporated a relevant section of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 in the FIR of the murder case on Sunday. Rangers’ authorities […]


Transitions: Sindhi poet Mansoor Malik passes away

By Sohail Khattak KARACHI: Renowned Sindhi poet, writer and anaesthetist, Dr Abdul Qayum Malik aka Mansoor Malik passed away of a heart attack in Karachi on Sunday night at the age of 59 and was laid to rest at his hometown of Padidan on Sunday. He was born on March 25, 1952. He went to […]


Journalist dies

SARGODHA – A local young journalist namely Humayon Altaf passed away due to a severe heart attack the other night. He was laid to rest amid tears and sobs in his ancestral graveyard in the presence of hundreds of people from all walks of life. His funeral was offered in Badshah Wali Masjid of Khushab. […]


Zardari says cantonment to be set up in Swat

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari vowed late on Friday night to continue war against terrorism till its logical end, announced the establishment of a cantonment in Swat and an increase in the salary of armed forces personnel equivalent to their one-month basic salary. In his brief address, Mr Zardari commended security personnel fighting militants in […]


Peshawar journalists in agony for fallen friends and future

By Waseem Ahmad Shah PESHAWAR: Journalists carrying the coffin of their fallen colleague, Asfandyar Chamkani, for burial on Sunday were weighed by the thought how many more such funerals lie ahead for the community. Asfandyar`s death and injuries to several other media workers, among the scores of casualties in the twin blasts at Khyber Super […]


Peshawar journalists in agony for fallen friends and future

By Waseem Ahmad Shah PESHAWAR: Journalists carrying the coffin of their fallen colleague, Asfandyar Chamkani, for burial on Sunday were weighed by the thought how many more such funerals lie ahead for the community. Asfandyar`s death and injuries to several other media workers, among the scores of casualties in the twin blasts at Khyber Super […]