Shahzad Anwar, Vice president of Multan Press Club and chief photographer of Daily “Pakistan Akhbaar” and six other journalists were injured in a clash with the students of state-run Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), when students were protesting for their demands outside the Press Club, in Multan, the city of Punjab province in Pakistan. According to […]
By Owais Tohid When Shehnaz Bibi was paraded naked on the streets on the orders of a local jirga, it was meant to humiliate her and make her life not worth living. In conservative tribal and feudal systems such victims are usually ostracised. But Shehnaz, despite her scarred soul, is ready to fight back and […]
ISLAMABAD: On a day of rage, the opposition PML-N came under an unforeseen pressure in parliament on Wednesday over life-threatening remarks by its Punjab’s law minister against PPP Senator Babar Awan, with one party official promising a “serious notice” to be taken of the outburst in Lahore. As an apparent outrage at Tuesday’s televised remarks […]
By Reuters LONDON: Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan are the world’s most dangerous countries for women due to a barrage of threats ranging from violence and rape to dismal health care and “honour killings”, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll showed on Wednesday. India and Somalia ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global perceptions survey […]
KHAIRPUR: Violence against women seems to be an integral part of the culture of rural Sindh. Not a single day passes without report of a so-called honour killing and other excesses against women from this region. Wednesday also proved a bad day for women as reports of killing of two women, a gang-rape and recovery […]
By Kalbe Ali HARIPUR: B, who was paraded naked in the streets of her village, Neelor Bala, a few days ago, still fears for her life and of her family members because the accused have not been apprehended. Her traumatised 10-year-old son also shakes in fear as he remembers his mother`s ordeal that he was […]
By Omair Zeeshan Failure to shift to IPv6 can result in Pakistan being cut off from rest of the internet . DESIGN: ANAM HALEEM KARACHI: Pakistan and its websites risk being cut off from the rest of the world if the country’s technology companies do not make the transition from the older technology being used […]
By Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE; The Punjab government will present about a Rs 490 billion tax free budget on Tuesday (today) with a development outlay of around Rs 182 billion. The News has learnt that the government will exempt the stamp duty from the transfers of inherit properties, which came under the stamp duty in the […]
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was informed on Wednesday that because of their fragile financial conditions cinemas were exempt from entertainment tax, which was mainly collected from amusement parks. This was stated in the house by Minister for Excise and Taxation Mukesh Kumar Chawla while responding to a supplementary question of legislator Heer Ismail Soho during […]
LAHORE: A large number of Jang Workers Union on Wednesday celebrated the restoration of Geo Super transmission and termed it the victory of democracy, judiciary, media as well as 180 million people of Pakistan. Participating in the ceremony held outside the Geo office Lahore, a large number of people from different walks of life and […]
Tahir Khalil ISLAMABAD: Different political and social circles in Islamabad have expressed delight over the resumption of telecasts of the most popular sports channel of Pakistan, Geo Super, on Wednesday. Members of parliament belonging to various political parties felicitated and expressed their happiness during the parliamentary proceedings while meeting the representatives of Jang, The News […]
RAWALPINDI: Security forces personnel on Monday claimed to have killed 50 Taliban in operations in Mohmand, Bajaur, Malakand and Bannu during the past 24 hours. The Inter-Services Public Relations said five Taliban were killed in retaliation after they attacked a local lashkar in Dir. They said the lashkar also destroyed three houses and injured six […]
ALI RAZA & NAVEED BUTT Islamabad: The sit-in of journalists against killing and threats to their colleagues on Wednesday forced the Federal Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan to cancel the Cabinet press briefing. Journalists boycotted the proceeding of National Assembly and Senate and staged a protest demonstration and sit-in outside the […]
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has strongly rejected a news item that appeared in a section of the press maligning the APNS for exerting pressure on the federal government to clear the 10-year-old dues of advertising agencies. In a press release issued on Wednesday, the APNS stated that the news item that appeared in […]
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