Karachi: The eagerly anticipated and highly publicised Shoaib Mansoor film titled ‘Bol’ was screened to a packed audience gathered at one of KarachiÂ’s hottest leisure spots, the Atrium Cinema. The premiere had the feel of a proper movie opening, with stars such as Reema, Meera, Fiza Ali and singer Fakhir walking along the red carpet. […]
KARACHI: The eagerly anticipated and highly publicised Shoaib Mansoor film titled ‘Bol’ was screened to a packed audience that thronged one of the hottest leisure spots of Karachi – Atrium Cinema. The premiere had the feeling of a proper movie opening with stars such as Reema, Meera, Fiza Ali and singer Fakhir walking along the […]
LAHORE: Around four people were killed in different incidents across the provincial capital on Sunday. In the first incident, a 16-year-old girl was clubbed to death by her uncle in the name of honour in the jurisdiction of Raiwind City police station. The victim was identified as Shumaila, a resident of Chamropur village. The victim’s […]
Waqar Kiani, 32, Pakistan-based correspondent of British newspaper “Guardian” was assaulted allegedly by police in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan on 18 June, 2011. He was attacked after five days of a news report published in Guardian and other newspapers about abduction and torture by suspected Pakistani intelligence agents in July 2008 in Islamabad. […]
Waheed Butt, 40, cameraman, “Geo News”, a leading private news channel, was arrested and assaulted by police as he was filming the arrest of a 12-year boy by police on June 17, 2011 in Lahore, capital city of Punjab province of Pakistan. Butt, who is also president of Lahore Cameramen Association (LCA), told Pakistan Press […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has appointed Bani Amin as Inspector General of Police (IGP), Islamabad, Sunday night on the vacant seat after replacement of former IGP Wajid Ali Durrani who was appointed as IGP Sindh the other day, the Establishment Division sources said. The Establishment Division issued notification of the appointment of […]
By Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: After keeping quiet for several weeks, the government has finally requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan to nominate a judge of the Supreme Court to head a commission to investigate the May 2 covert US operation in Abbottabad in which Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed. Federal Law and […]
Maria Kamal Karachi: Confessing that I committed Facebook suicide several weeks ago may not be the best way to begin a column on social media – but in the interest of full disclosure, here it is: I left Facebook in April after having used it religiously for several years. For avid Facebook users, as I […]
Pakistan’s information technology (IT) industry is set to post a robust growth in the coming years, as global economies have started recovering from the shocks of recession. “Global economic recession had a negative impact on the growth of Pakistan’s IT firms. But we were not as badly affected as IT industries of other parts of […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to relieve tension and ease confrontation between institutions, the federal government has sent two letters to the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, for constitution of two separate commissions to probe the Abbottabad incident and the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. According to sources, Registrar Supreme Court Dr Faqir Hussain […]
ISLAMABAD: In order to relieve tension and ease confrontation between institutions, the federal government has sent two letters to the Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, for constitution of two separate commissions to probe the Abbottabad incident and the murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad. According to sources, Registrar Supreme Court Dr Faqir Hussain […]
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has condemned the maltreatment of another journalist in Islamabad late Saturday night. In a statement, PFUJ Secretary-General Amin Yousuf said that another journalist has been subjected to torture by unidentified men. The need to investigate this trend in which journalists are being targeted has become a lot more important, […]
LAHORE – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has claimed that a team of PTA alongwith FIA has busted an illegal international gateway exchange in a residential area of Karachi. According to a press release issued here on Friday, the illegal setup was detected through the Technical Facility installed by PTA to monitor the illegal business of telecom […]
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