By: Ashraf Javed CHAGMALAI, SOUTH WAZIRISTAN – No less than 650-km away from Lahore, the capital of the largest Punjab province where girls wearing jeans are seen strolling around shopping malls, the young woman are chained in caves in South Waziristan. They are chained by the century-old tribal customs, not by the religion, in this […]
“First I killed Habibullah. Then I killed my wife,” says husband, unaware that his wife had survived the shooting and was recovering at Rajanpur DHQ hospital. RAJANPUR: Two people were killed and another was critically injured on Monday in ‘honour’ crimes in Rajanpur. Basti Chachar resident Hafeezullah shot his wife, Parveen Bibi, 17, and relative, […]
By Z Ali Culture department held a ceremony for Pir Hasamuddin Shah Rashdi at Makli. HYDERABAD: Hundreds of people, besides scholars, historians and writers attended the 30th death anniversary of historian, Pir Hasamuddin Shah Rashdi at Makli, also his final resting place. Rashdi was born in Larkana on September 20, 1911, and spent most of […]
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at the ‘Collective Action for Ensuring Women’s and Girl’s Participation in Electoral Processes in Pakistan’ forum on Monday highlighted the need for women’s and girl’s participation in electoral processes as an important channel for ensuring that they maintain both voice and visibility, and are part of decision making processes which is essential for […]
KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the media should avoid spreading sensation by ‘misreporting of facts regarding law and order situation of Karachi’. Talking to media persons here on Monday, he said there was no target killing yesterday but I saw the newspapers today in which they stated that six person were killed […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in a statement on Monday said there are difficulties in verifying the cases of disappearance in Balochistan and urged all concerned to play their role in documenting these cases. The HRCP said disappearances still continue in Pakistan and the body was facing hurdles in documenting the same. […]
THIS is with reference to your editorial ‘PBC in dire straits’ (Feb 26) and subsequent letters of readers (March 2 and 11). It was radio that made the first-ever announcement of the birth of our country on the night of Aug 14, 1947, at midnight in the voice of Zahoor Azar: “At the stroke of […]
Jamal Khurshid Karachi: The Sindh High Court on Monday issued notices to the advocate general Sindh, prosecutor general Sindh and former Punjab Assembly MPA Bilal Khar on a petition for reopening the Fakhra Yunus acid-throwing case. Bilal Khar, son of former Punjab governor Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar, was acquitted by the District and Sessions Court […]
EVERY year in Pakistan about 100 cases of acid throwing are reported to the police. Although the media has been showing reports and highlights those cases, but no one is making any effort for the remedy of acid-attack victims. Women are affected by acid attacks across the country and they are surviving by themselves. Many […]
THE technology of blocking snatched, stolen or lost cellphones through IMEI number has been adopted widely across the globe by many countries. The same technology was implemented for the first time in Pakistan by the Sindh police in Karachi. A special department was formed to deal with such cases, i.e to block the lost, stolen […]
Khawar Ghumman ON BOARD PM SPECIAL PLANE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said his government is in no hurry to reopen Nato supply routes and a decision to that effect will be taken only after evolving a consensus at the Parliamentary Committee on National Security. During an informal chat with media personnel on board […]
KARACHI: National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Senate Chairman Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah have felicitated president of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society Sarmad Ali and secretary general Masood Hamid on their unanimous election to the posts for the year 2012-13. They have […]
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