ISLAMABAD: During a nation-wide action against airing of illegal and proscribed TV channels by cable TV operators, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has confiscated equipment of several cable TV networks. According to a Pemra statement, despite repeated warnings by the Authority various illegal and proscribed channels are being run by Cable TV operators in […]
ISLAMABAD – Mian Shams has been appointed member of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to represent the province of Punjab. A notification in this regard has also been issued. Being a dedicated PPP leader, Mian Shams, has discharged his duties as spokesman for President Zardari during his days in jail. He was also […]
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan on Wednesday reiterated the resolve of the government that it remained committed to providing better environment for promoting vibrant media in the country. Addressing the meeting of Executive Committee of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), she said the government is committed to playing the role […]
Anwer Mooraj Serious critics of Pakistani films are justified in giving those films a wide berth which gravitate towards clichéd themes of marriage, unrequited love and the inevitable romantic triangle and end up as uninspiring, predictable and repetitive; as if they had all been tarred by the same brush. But though the press coverage of […]
Farooq Sulehria Shrouded in an overwhelming dust, Kabul hasn’t changed much since 2008 when I last visited the town. An aggressive construction spree goes on while the streets, save some artery roads, remain unpaved. These unpaved streets contribute to the dust but it is the massacre of trees during the 90s that is responsible for […]
Zeeshan Mujahid KARACHI: “The land mafia first lured us into buying cheap plots. After the houses were constructed, they had us vacate them at gunpoint. They raped me and my sister-in-law for trying to resist and had false cases registered against us.” Noor Bibi, resident of Mehran Town, burst into tears as she told a […]
HARIPUR: The bail application of three jirga members charged with abetting the public abuse of a woman in Neelor Bala was rejected on Wednesday. A court of an additional session judge rejected the bail. A similar bail application of the three was earlier rejected by the court of judical magistrate on June 23. The Saddar […]
SUKKUR: The shabby tradition of Karo Kari claimed four lives, including two women here on Wednesday. In village Meera Magsi in the limits of Bahram police station, accused Faisal Magsi shot dead his wife Bhiraie and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Magsi over illicit relations. The accused later went to the police station with his […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed on Wednesday that a 40-acre piece of land owned by a karokari accused should be handed over to her. In a suo motu case, a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry asked the police officials concerned to provide full security to Haleema Bhutto and arrest the accused. […]
By Habib Khan Ghori KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet has asked the chief secretary to call a meeting of the secretaries of all departments and prepare a report about the problems being faced in the transfer of departments and their assets so that the matters are placed before a ministerial committee and subsequently taken up at […]
By Azizullah Sharif KARACHI: A Rs44.5 billion tax-free budget of the City District Government Karachi and a Rs26 billion budget of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board for the financial year 2011-12 was announced on Wednesday. The CDGK’s total receipts for the financial year are Rs24.8 billion, current receipts Rs23.5 billion and capital receipts over […]
The centre will release this year’s last tranche of Rs140 billion to the provinces from the federal divisible pool on Thursday but withhold for a few days about Rs16 billion earmarked for compensating flood-affected people, to achieve fiscal deficit target of 5.3 per cent. At the conclusion of the year on Thursday, the authorities will […]
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has said that agents of the state, insurgents and extremists operating in Balochistan share a common disregard for citizens’ rights. The insurgents are involved in killing ‘settlers’ and religious extremists in sectarian killings. In a report – “Balochistan: blinkered slide into chaos” – released here on Wednesday, the […]
MIRAMSHAH: Clashes between security forces and militants intensified in North Waziristan on Monday and the Taliban scrapped a peace deal they had signed with the government 16 months ago. Security officials said that 27 soldiers had lost their lives on Sunday in an attack on a military convoy in Wacha Bibi near Datakhel, about 35 […]
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