KARACHI – A delegation of US journalists, led by Shabbir Cheema, director of the Asia-Pacific Governance and Democracy Initiative (AGDIA) of the East-West Centre Honolulu, visited Nine-Zero, the MQM’s head office, on Wednesday. The delegates – Tara Bahrampour of the Washington Post, John Diaz of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jenna Fisher of the Christian Science […]
Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Hasanat Khan said all state-run schools in the district are closed for examinations until April 7. NOWSHERA: A girls’ school was blown up in Taru Jaba area of Nowshera district on Wednesday evening. Waqar Khan from the Pabbi police station told The Express Tribune that suspected militants scaled the boundary […]
By Mohammad Zafar QUETTA: A majority of Afghan refugees have not got themselves registered out of fear that they would be forcefully repatriated from Balochistan, Major Farzand Ali, the Afghan Refugees Organisation Balochistan director operations, said on Wednesday. Addressing a workshop, he said there was no legislation to deal with refugees who had been residing […]
LAHORE: Senior journalist Abdul Rashid Ghazi, member of the executive committee of All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS) and chief editor of Daily Business Report, passed away on Wednesday afternoon due to cardiac arrest. The APNS President, Sarmad Ali, expressed his condolence over the death, and eulogised the services of the late journalist for regional press […]
LAHORE: PPP MNA Fauzia Wahab on Wednesday visited the residence of the late reporter of Jang Lahore, Hamid Javed, and condoled with his family over his death. The PPP leader also handed over a Rs1 million cheque as financial assistance to the family and an appointment letter to his widow on behalf of President Asif […]
Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: A man received serious burn injuries when the former husband of his wife threw acid on his face at his house in the Surjani Town police limits on Wednesday. According to Investigation Officer Jamal, the face of Noman Sheikh alias Nomi (32) son of Mohammed Akhtar, was completely burnt after the […]
Karachi: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that the latest cycle of violence and the utter breakdown of law and order in Karachi, which has claimed scores of lives already, is a result of an ongoing turf war in the city. “There is a consensus that much of the violence in Karachi […]
Ayesha Shahid From the hotness of the new mehram in a girl’s life to saying no to a potential date, online chat rooms and blogs deal with religion and twenty-first century issues in an appealing manner What is the newly-wed woman of today to think about her new family – should she dread her in-laws […]
Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to announce in the next budget a 20 per cent increase in salary and pensions of government employees and six special honoraria payments to all officials of the finance ministry. Informed sources told Dawn on Wednesday that according to initial estimates of the finance ministry the financial impact […]
Munawer Azeem ISLAMABAD: Three girl students of ninth grade were allegedly subjected to gang-rape on Wednesday, sources in police said. K.B., S.B. and A.B., students of a local school, were abducted by some people when they were returning home. They were taken to a rent-a-car showroom in Jhang Syedan, located in the limits of Kural […]
KARACHI: Dawn newspaper and DawnNews channel won five National Environmental Reporting Awards (Nera) at a ceremony held at the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) auditorium on Tuesday. The News of the Year Award in Print Media was presented to Dawn in recognition of the news item on electronic waste by Bhagwandas, […]
The terror attacks on 9/11 and the subsequent worldwide crisis led Pakistan into a dangerous situation . The Tribal Areas of Pakistan were singled out as ‘terrorist havens’ and the world view towards Pakistan changed for worse. https://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Terrorism-Related-Conflict-Media-Coverage-Analysis.pdf
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