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Daily Archives: April 29, 2012

Girl shot in rape bid

SARGODHA: A man sexually assaulted and shot a girl at Satellite Town here the other day. A salesman in a local medicine distribution company Babar Khan, a resident of Din Colony allegedly shot and injured his colleague who refused to surrender herself to him for the fulfilment of his sexual desires when she was alone […]


Education schemes in ADP: Sindh P&D Department approves 48 out of 67 proposals

Karachi: Sindh Planning and Development (P&D) Department has approved 48 out of total 67 Education Department’s proposals for development schemes for the Annual Development Programme (ADP) 2012-13, informed sources told Business Recorder here on Thursday. The P&D Department is engaged in formulation of ADP 2012-13 despite shortage of technical staff. Officials of various sections of […]


Girls’ primary school blown up in Landikotal

LANDIKOTAL: Unidentified terrorists on Friday blew up a makeshift girls’ school at Sheikhmal Khel Tehsil, sources said. Bahadur Khan Shinwari, the building’s owner, said female students had been shifted to the place after the destruction of government school. No casualties were reported, sources said. Security forces cordoned off the area and collected evidences from the […]


MOOD STREET

Journalistic delights Ammara Ahmad It appears from a distance that newspaper journalists are listless and idle ideologues, lost in the saga of a by-gone era. This will seem very true if you visit the office in day-time. But in the night, the picture is very different and happening. Most journalists are creatures of the night, […]


Women MPAs leading debates in PA

Karachi: The four-year performance of the Sindh Assembly demonstrates that the women MPAs have been leading in the house in terms of their active participation in discussions. A comparative list of the performance of the MPAs showed that NPP’s Arif Mustafa Jatoi submitted 1,179 questions followed by the MQM’s Heer Soho with 1,330 questions, the […]


A voice for peace, and for the ‘ordinary people’

It’s hard to write about Sunny, as friends knew Murtaza Razvi, in the past tense. Our association spanned over 25 years and although we didn’t meet or communicate very often, it was comforting to know he was there, part of our larger family of forward-thinking, progressive-minded, secular, humane, literature-loving and above all utterly decent human […]


In the name of festivals

Why have we killed our traditional festivals, which were part of the cultural life and instead tried to hold state-sponsored events calling them a jashan-e-baharaan? Sarwat Ali Two melas in the last week or so were held in Lahore — one at the Alhamra and the other at the Minar-e-Pakistan in which a large number […]


Punjab signs MoUs with known IT companies

LAHORE: Punjab government on Saturday signed different Memorandums of Understandings (MoUs) with the world renowned IT companies for enhancing mutual cooperation in information technology sector. The MoU signing ceremony held at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park was attended by Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and senior officials of provincial government and representatives of IT […]