ISLAMABAD: In continuation of its policy of targeting the Geo/Jang Group for exposing mega corruption of the PPP government after inflicting huge financial losses on the group, the Media Cell of the Presidency is now vying to destroy the group by engaging pro-government media channels to hire top anchorpersons working with the most popular channel […]
By Anwer Mooraj [email protected] It is time somebody paid tribute to the Karachi Press Club (KPC), a non-political institution established in 1958 that has played a vital role for the establishment of democracy and in the struggle for press freedom in this country. Today, it plays host to around 900 members of various religious and […]
KARACHI: Gang-rape victim Mukhtaran Mai has rejected the allegations levelled against her in a US diplomatic cable released by global secret-buster WikiLeaks. The cable — sent in 2006 by then US ambassador Ryan C Crocker to Washington — referred to a report by six Pakistani NGOs, which said that Mai and her brother — Hazoor […]
By Shamsul Islam Family, neighbours threaten sit-in at DPO’s office if rapist is not caught in 48 hours. JHANG: A labourer’s eight-year-old daughter was abducted, raped and slaughtered on Monday evening. According to police officials, Iqbalnagar resident Faiz Ahmed’s daughter was kidnapped while she and her father were sleeping in their courtyard on Monday night. […]
Karachi: The body of a woman, who was strangled to death after being gang-raped, was found in the Zaman Town police limits on Tuesday. The corpse of the 35-year-old woman, whose identity could not be established immediately, was found near Sector 50/A in Korangi No. 3-1/2. Some passers-by saw the body and informed the police, […]
By Masood Haider NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called upon all media organisations in Pakistan to review their security and safety training procedures to address the mounting number of journalists’ deaths. The New York-based watchdog group noted two journalists died and five more were injured in a double bombing in Peshawar […]
Islamabad: The National Blood Transfusion Programme (NBTP) partnered with the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) to hold an orientation session aimed at building the capacity of the media as a partner in promoting voluntary blood donation here on Tuesday. The session was addressed by the manager of NBTP Dr. […]
By Huma Imtiaz WASHINGTON: “Inside Pakistan’s ISI”, an event held by think tank Middle East Institute headed by former US Ambassador to Pakistan Wendy Chamberlain, attempted to answer questions about “Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency”. The panel featured Washington Post’s diplomatic correspondent Karen DeYoung, RAND Corporation’s Senior Political Scientist Arturo Munoz and Atlantic Council’s South Asia […]
HYDERABAD: Soyem of noted novelist, short story writer, playwright and editor of a magazine `Mehran` Tariq Alam Abro was held at his Jamshoro residence on Tuesday. A large number of writers, poets and intellectuals including Imdad Hussaini, Zaib Sindhi, Taj Joyo, Naseer Mirza, Mukhtar Malik, Mehmood Mughal, Sahar Imdad, Ali Baba, Parwano Bhatti, Bedal Masroor, […]
KARACHI: Women Development Minister Tauqeer Fatima Bhutto has said that working women hostels could not be made functional due to the fact that their buildings are occupied by government departments and Rangers. The hostels for working women were established by the federal government in the late 90s in five cities, including Karachi and Hyderabad. Speaking […]
SUKKUR: One more woman lost her life on Tuesday at the hands of her husband on the pretext of being a kari in Jan Muhammad Bugti village in PS limits RD-44 near Thull. Reports said one Jawed Bugti was suspecting his wife of having illicit relations with another man and thus shot her dead and […]
Jamal Tarakai, 36,Quetta-based photojournalist working for various media organizations, who had filmed the first video of security forces’ firing on the five Chechens including three women on May 17, 2011,was arrested, beaten and abused by police in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan province on morning of June 14, 2011. Tarakai told Pakistan Press Foundation […]
ACCORDING to the UN News Centre, the World Health Organisation reported on May 31 that the exposure to electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones could possibly cause cancer, including an increased risk in a malignant type of brain tumour. A working group of 31 scientists from 14 countries met at the International Agency for Research […]
By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government removed the director general of Sindh Rangers and police chief of the province on Tuesday in compliance with an order issued by the Supreme Court after the cold-blooded killing of a young man in Karachi last week. The ISPR announced the removal of Rangers Director General Maj-Gen Ejaz […]
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