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Daily Archives: June 21, 2011

Cartoon-making workshop starts

Islamabad: A 4-day workshop on cartoon making by renowned cartoonist Nigar Nazar started here on Monday at Kuch Khaas. After the successful talk and presentation of her journey throughout the years on her cartoon making with a cause at Kuch Khaas, Nigar, the brainchild of Gogi Studios conducted the workshop with participants of all ages. […]


Sufism mightier than gun: Sassui

KHAIRPUR: Sindh Culture Minister Sassui Palijo said that because of great Sufi poets, Sindhi people were still liberal-minded and added that there was a need of conducting research on Sachal, Bhittai, Sami, Shah Inayat Shaheed and other Sufi personalities. Speaking at “Sachal Sarmast seminar” here on Sunday evening, she said that mystic philosophy was powerful […]


Man ‘kills’ wife

By TAFF REPORTER CIIAKWAL: A husband killed her wife at Gulistan Town with in the limits of City Police Station Chakwal on Monday. The de¬ceased, Naheed Kanwal, daugh¬ter of Gulistan Khan, married with Mehr Khan and it was the second marriage of both. The couple had some domestic problem. Khurram Shahzad Advocate, brother of Naheed […]


Two sisters gunned down in Pindi hostel

Fazal Sher Rawalpindi: Two sisters were killed and one was injured when a gunman opened fire on them inside a girls’ hostel, located at Lal Kurti. Three sisters Safia, Saira and Sobia were running a private girls hostel. They were shot at by Asad, a resident of Lal Kurti. “Asad entered the hostel and opened […]


Handicapped girl’s ordeal: Rape victim dies under unexplained circumstances

HARIPUR: A handicapped girl who was allegedly raped by her uncle died on Sunday amid unexplained circumstances. However, the girl’s family declined to allow an autopsy of her body and buried her quietly. According to the police and the girl’s family, the accused was arrested following a complaint by the victim’s mother and was sent […]


Militants force girl to wear suicide jacket

By Haleem Asad TIMERGARA:A nine-year-old girl escaped becoming a suicide bomber on Monday when she managed to dodge her kidnappers and get away from their custody. Suhana, who was presented by the Lower Dir police before newsmen, said she had been asked by her kidnappers to carry out a suicide attack on a security checkpost […]


Injured journalist dies of blast wounds

On June 17, 2011, Shafiullah Khan, 28, a young trainee reporter at the daily “The News”, Peshawar succumbed to his critical wounds he received during two deadly blasts that ripped through the military cantonment’s Khyber Supermarket in a commercial and residential area of Peshawar, the capital city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on 11 […]


Remembering Benazir Bhutto

By Sharmila Faruqui June 21, 1953, saw the birth of a beautiful baby girl in the famous political family of the Bhuttos of Sindh. She was named “Benazir” after her paternal aunt. Her charismatic father, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was ecstatic about the birth of his first child, nicknamed Pinky. Twenty-five years later, on June […]


No country for women

Numbers have an innate ability to enhance the significance of facts and perceptions and highlight the gravity of matter. In a recent survey conducted by the Thomson Reuters to investigate the plight of women across the world, the results were staggering. Contrarily to common assumption, South Asia had to bear the ignominy of being home […]


Kayani`s statement fabricated, says ISPR

ISLAMABAD: The military`s public affairs wing denied on Monday that Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had suggested that the country had been mortgaged to the US. “The entire statement is fabricated with malicious intent. COAS Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani never said that Pakistan had mortgaged itself to the US,” Inter-Services Public Relations […]


US takes Pakistan into confidence on talks with Taliban

By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir ISLAMABAD: The United States has for the first time taken Pakistan into confidence about its clandestine dialogue with Taliban at unknown places at the different spots. The visiting US Deputy Special Representative for the Region Frank Ruggiero called on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (MOS) Hina Rabbani Khar and apprised […]


Justices Javed Iqbal and Saqib Nisar to head commissions: CJ keeps govt choices unchanged

By Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD:Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Monday nominated Justice Javed Iqbal and Justice Mian Saqib Nisar to head the inquiry commissions on the Abbottabad incident and the murder of journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad. The government had earlier named the same judges but was forced by critics to leave the nominations to the […]


Nawaz launches fresh tirade against Zardari

* PML-N chief says corruption has reached its peak in country’s history * Vows he won’t be blackmailed by Zardari anymore MIRPUR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, on Monday, came down hard on President Asif Ali Zardari, saying that corruption was at its highest in the history of the country. Addressing a massive […]


Man ‘kills’ wife

By TAFF REPORTER CIIAKWAL: A husband killed her wife at Gulistan Town with in the limits of City Police Station Chakwal on Monday. The de¬ceased, Naheed Kanwal, daugh¬ter of Gulistan Khan, married with Mehr Khan and it was the second marriage of both. The couple had some domestic problem. Khurram Shahzad Advocate, brother of Naheed […]