ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia on Thursday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop and promote close linkages and collaboration between print and electronic media of the two friendly countries to promote bilateral relations and depict a true image of Islam to the world. In this regard, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous […]
By Jahanzaib Haque The writer is Web Editor of The Express Tribune and tweets @Jhaque_ [email protected] Story after story the comments are always the same. “Why is this paper so biased towards liberalism and secularism? Very unethical”, “Why are you always covering every small issue of minorities? Pakistan has so many problems”, “immature writing to […]
Hina Hafeezullah Ishaq According to Islamic injunctions, a female is not bound to provide maintenance to anyone; her property is solely hers to be enjoyed as she wishes Another feather in the cap of the federal government was the passage of the anti-women practices law that amended the Pakistan Penal Code. One such amendment was […]
* Corporation demands Rs 5 billion; govt allocates only Rs 2.2bn By Manzoor Qadir ISLAMABAD: The proposed allocation of Rs 2.2 billion against a Rs 5 billion demand for the Pakistan Broadcasting Cooperation (PBC) in the next financial year 2012-13 is expected to hit hard the state-run institution, which is already facing serious financial crisis […]
QUETTA: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry ordered Balochistan police on Thursday to produce before the court on Friday seven people picked up from Quetta’s Sariab Road area on March 1. If it was not done, he warned, the police chief and other officers concerned would be suspended. The chief justice also ordered the home secretary […]
THIS is apropos of Squadron Leader S. Ausaf Hussain’s letter ‘Plight of women in public buses’ (March 30) in which he says that the state of our public transport is an indicator of poor governance. I agree with the point that women’s section in buses should be enhanced (as seen in the now defunct city […]
ISLAMABAD: Sindh police told the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights on Thursday that they could not take action against Malik Bilal Mustafa Khar for throwing acid on his deceased wife Fakhra Yunus after the complainant witnesses to the incident changed their testimonies in the court. Additional Inspector General (AIG) Police Sindh Falak Khurshid […]
ISLAMABAD: Medical examination on Thursday confirmed that two students who were abducted on Wednesday were gang raped and tortured, sources told Dawn. They also said one of the accused had been arrested and police were hunting for the other five men. Police sources on Wednesday had said K.B. S.B., and A.B., students of a local […]
FAISALABAD: Anti-Terrorism Court judge Ishtiaq Ahmed sentenced on Thursday a girl to 34-year imprisonment and Rs115,000 fine for throwing acid on the father of her former fiancé. The girl had thrown acid on Razzaq Ahmed, father of Shehzad, in Asif Sitara colony area of the city on Nov 20, 2010. She believed that Razzaq was […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm at the continuing loss of life in sectarian strife in Gilgit-Baltistan and demanded that the government, political parties and civil society organisations join hands to bring peace to the area at the earliest. In a statement issued on Thursday, the commission said: “HRCP […]
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