Pakistan on Saturday moved to block more than a dozen websites over YouTube clips featuring two prominent parliamentarians, and allegations of a secret marriage of the boss of the country”s state-run television. The order, from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), affects some 15 sites, which featured recordings of mobile phone conversations between a male and […]
By: MUSHTAQ GHUMMAN Pakistan is to start negotiations with Tunisia for signing Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) which will be beneficial for the country’s textile sector; well-informed sources in Commerce Ministry told Business Recorder. Giving the background, sources said, during the sixth session of Pakistan-Tunisia Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) held in Islamabad on September 3-4, 2007, […]
By: Ramzan Chandio KARACHI: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) had not yet submitted its report with the Election Commission to clarify the reasons of reduction in the number of voters in Sindh, officials told TheNation on Saturday. Following the hue and cry from the political parties and objections raised by the Sindh government, the […]
By: SUMAIR KHAN I would like to share a personal experience so that the authorities concerned take some action to address the grievances of the general public visiting the Nadra offices for getting passports or CNICs. I have been trying to get my documents completed with Nadra authorities for almost one and a half years. […]
SUKKUR: Another case of a Hindu girl converting to Islam has surfaced as she and her husband approached a court seeking safety after receiving threats from the girl’s family. The girl, Manisha, embraced Islam and married Ghulam Mustafa of Jacobabad after moving to Amroth Sharif on August 6. She also changed her name to Mahwish. […]
BAHAWALPUR: Cholistan Development Council of Pakistan Executive Director Farooq Ahmed Khan said that the government had taken historic step to ensure protection of women’s rights. He also praised the efforts of the parliamentarians in this regard. He welcomed the announced made by President Zardari about appointment of women judges. Discrimination with women has very deep […]
By: Arshad Bhati LAHORE: The Punjab University on Saturday declared the results for Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science (BSc) Annual Examinations 2012 with a pass percentage of 39.85, showing an increase of 6 per cent over the last year when this percentage was 34.09. According to the result notification, of the 143,750 […]
By: Imran Mukhtar ISLAMABAD: Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) here on Friday in his report submitted to the Ministry of Interior has said that all the Hindu Yatris who left Pakistan for India during last few days had only gone there to visit their religious places and ruled out the possibility of […]
HYDERABAD: As acts of vengeance continue against couples defying their families to marry, another freewill couple joined the list facing death threats. Twenty-six-year-old Sajjad Samoon and Nargis Soomro, 22, tied the knot on August 3 but were lucky enough to survive an attack outside the court only five days later. On Saturday, the woman claimed […]
ISLAMABAD: The Meteorological Department Saturday said the moon of Shawwal is less likely to be sighted on August 18; hence Eidul Fitr may fall on August 20. According to the Met Department, Shawwal moon will emerge belatedly on August 18. Accordingly, it said, the chances are thin that it would be sighted in any part […]
ISLAMABAD: The telecom sector on Saturday released a joint statement refuting recent reports issued in the media that have supported the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) allegations of non-deposit of sales tax on interconnection charges over the last five years. The statement was issued following incorrect media reports claiming that the telecom sector had agreed to […]
By: PARVEZ RAHIM Karachi: The Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010 and its provisions are not complied with by various hospitals in Karachi. The definition of ‘organisation’ given in the Act is quite comprehensive and, besides the healthcare institutions, it includes educational institutes and industrial and commercial establishments. The above law […]
By: MUHAMMAD OWAIS SHABBIR Karachi: In the wake of the recent murder in Britain of a 17-year-old girl by her parents in the name of honour, an inside war of mind and heart of many parents who are victims of cross-cultural moral values, has been revealed. The feelings that triggered this inhuman act of theirs […]
By: Anil Datta Karachi: Art has come a long way from the conventional pursuit it was during the time of the English landscape painters and Goya or Renoir. Today there are many schools of art and many art forms which might look weird to a lay viewer. Or, the forms depicted may not be as […]
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