By: Atle Hetland I like to make films that are controversial,” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy said at a large panel discussion organised by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday this week. She was honoured for her Oscar-winning film, Saving Face, by the research and intellectual community gathered in the elegant auditorium at HEC in Islamabad. The […]
LAHORE – A police inquiry has absolved Muhammad Asghar, the main accused in the Faisalabad’s infamous gang-rape case of Samina Bibi. The probe, conducted and completed by DIG Maj (retired) Mubashirullah Khan, has also declared Asghar’s friends as not guilty. “A few culprits, in connivance with a woman, have incriminated the innocent citizens in a […]
By Zia Khan ISLAMABAD: The government appointed Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Farooq H Naek as law minister on Wednesday, completing an overhaul of its legal team ahead of crucial hearings in the Supreme Court. Naek, who resigned from the slot of Senate chairman last month after elections for half of upper house’s seats, was administered […]
By Kamran Yousaf Indian media personnel will visit AJK, Swat and the country’s tribal areas. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to allow a group of Indian journalists to travel to its part of Kashmir and the tribal areas in a rare development that indicates gradual normalisation of ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The Indian delegation, […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday conferred the status of federal minister on Ambassador of Pakistan to the USA Sherry Rehman. The Cabinet Division issued the notification in this regard on Wednesday. Sherry Rehman, a former information minister, was appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States of America on November 23 last year. […]
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) was ordered on Wednesday by the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Interior to set up a regional facilitation centre to ensure the issuance of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to Bengali-speaking people who had valid documentary proof. The committee met with Abdul Qadir Patel in the chair […]
LONDON: Wealthy, educated and modern Pakistani women are increasingly embracing the trend for religious inquiry and observance, said The Guardian in a report published on Tuesday. The paper gave example of the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab’s Lahore branch where female workers increasingly wear “headscarves tightly wound around […]
NOWSHERA: The journalists Wednesday announced not to give coverage to the activities of the Jamaat-e-Islami, the Alkhidmat group and traders association for using indecent language against them. The announcement came at the general body meeting of the Nowshera Press Club. They accused the JI activists and traders of passing uncalled for remarks about the journalists […]
Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: The government showed its true colour on the question of press freedom in a recent meeting of Unesco in Paris where it neither produced any report of inquiry into the killings of journalists nor endorsed the UN draft plan on the safety of journalists and the issue of impunity. Also, the country’s […]
Shoaib A Raja ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the allegations of corruption on the prime ministerí s family, the federal cabinet on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Yusuf Raza Gilani on the reports published and broadcast in the media regarding his son Ali Musa Gilani. Briefing the media after the cabinet meeting, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous […]
KARACHI: More body parts of a woman, whose legs and forearms had been recovered during the last two days, were found in Cosmopolitan Society within the remit of the Jamshed Quarters police station on Wednesday, police said. The body parts found on Wednesday included the severed head and upper torso, the police said, adding that […]
LAHORE: The continuing sectarian killings in Quetta and Gilgit-Baltistan manifests a blatant failure to address religious intolerance in society, which constitutes one of the biggest threats to the country, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Wednesday. The commission said in a statement: “HRCP is alarmed by the continuing sectarian bloodshed in Pakistan, […]
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