By: TAHIR AMIN ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has decided to restart data cleaning exercise for blocking SIMs with unverified and incomplete data, said PTA Chairman Farooq Ahmad Awan. In an exclusive talk with Business Recorder after a meeting held here on Thursday in which all telecom operators participated, PTA Chairman said it was decided […]
Crimes against women increased 7 per cent this year as 57 districts reported 982 cases in May 2012 compared to 922 in the same month last year. However, over the last two years, an increase of 31 per cent was reported in such crimes with 746 FIRs lodged in May 2010, says a Free and […]
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Governor, Barrister Masood Kausar has directed to further strengthen and streamline the Women Skill Development Programme in Fata with special focus on value addition, quality and making the products attractive from demand and marketing point of views. Presiding over a presentation on working and achievements of the programme at Governor’s House, Peshawar […]
VEHARI: A young girl escaping forced marriage with an old man here in the city fled home a day prior to the marriage and took recourse to the court, said media reports on Thursday. District and Sessions Judge Vihari Syed Hamid Hussain Shah remanded the matter of recording the girl’s statement to the court of […]
ISLAMABAD: With the aim to promote the understanding of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the Ministry of Climate Change has introduced a CDM guidebook for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The guidebook was launched by Federal Minister for Climate Change Rana Farooq Saeed Khan at the ministry here on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference following […]
The state of the arts in Pakistan is decidedly mixed. On the one hand, there is good news in the form of the Pakistani film Seedlings (Lamha) winning the People’s Choice Award for Best Film and the Best Actress award at the New York City International Film Festival. Then, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a Hollywood movie […]
CHICHA WATNI: A woman and her four daughters were killed in a Chicha Watni village on Wednesday night allegedly by one of her sons. The suspect, Khalid Allah Ditta, 26, has been arrested by Ghaziabad police who say that he has confessed to killing the women. The police said the suspect, a resident of Chak29-11 […]
ISLAMABAD: NADRA has clarified that the statement of Senator Talha Mehmood about the authority issuing of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) to 500,000 aliens had been misreported in a section of media on August 29. The authority said that it was the National Alien Registration Authority (NARA) not NADRA that has, under the law, a […]
ISLAMABAD: A court on Thursday adjourned a bail hearing for a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, prompting human rights activists to make fresh calls for her release in a case that has drawn renewed criticism of the country’s anti-blasphemy laws. Religious and secular groups worldwide have protested over the arrest this month of Rimsha Masih, […]
LAHORE: A 25-year-old nurse of Wapda Hospital committed suicide over the engagement against her will in Wahdat Colony police limits in the wee hours of Thursday. Police have handed over the body to the victim’s family after completing legal formalities. The deceased was identified as Monika Masih, a resident of Wahdat Colony. The News
By: Syed Inayat Ali Shah PESHAWAR: The report of the five-member inquiry committee constituted by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Archaeology Department to visit Karachi to examine the Gandhara statues and artifacts seized by the Sindh police disclosed that 90 percent of the held assets were fake or replicas of the original. Divulging details of the […]
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said he will stick to his statement that President Asif Ali Zardari was doling out billions of rupees to favoured TV channels in the name of advertisements as part of pre-poll rigging. In a statement, he said those in Zardari’s circle were trying to distort his […]
Karachi: It has been proven that security agencies were responsible for several cases of missing persons, claimed that Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) as it staged a demonstration to observe International Day of the Disappeared. The day is marked annually on August 30 to draw attention to the plight of people ‘picked up’ and […]
By: Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has stressed the need for ending military’s domination in Balochistan and called for a probe into accusations of state agencies’ involvement in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. “The state should expose the funding for hate-mongering business from Pakistan and abroad. All countries that […]
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