NANKANA SAHIB: A youth killed his sister for honour here the other day. Sarman, a resident of village Guray Gauon, in the remit of Mangtanwala, killed his 19-years old sister by strangulation. Reportedly, the accused doubted that her sister had love affair with someone in the area. He fled away after committing the crime. The […]
By: NAVEED BUTT Speaker National Assembly, Dr Fehmida Mirza has constituted a 14-member Commission for creation of two new provinces in Punjab. The 14-member Commission will oversee the issues relating to fair distribution of economic and financial resources, demarcation, allocation/readjustment of seats in the National Assembly, Senate and the provincial assemblies concerned and allocation of […]
Umerkot: Journalists condemned the cases registered against Karachi-bases journalist Azad Nohrio and his family at Chhor police station. Mirpurkhas DIG Ghulam Haider Jamali has asked the police to look into the issue. Cases were filed against Nohrio, his father and four uncles. Two of his uncles, Ibrahim and Ismail, were also arrested by the police […]
SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court Sukkur bench has allowed a newly wed couple, Ghulam Murtaza Channa and Mehwish, to live together. The court ordered the police not to take any action against the couple on the basis of an FIR registered by the girl’s father, Rewat Mal. The couple was represented in court by their […]
By: Saad Hasan KARACHI: Waking up to changing technological trends, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) is currently working on a new website that will allow the city administration to connect with millions of residents through their cell phones. On Tuesday many people received a message from KMC, wishing them a happy independence day. The website […]
KARACHI: The meteorological department and government officials have backtracked on their earlier claims that Sindh would face fresh floods. Officials now speak of a possible drought in Thar and other arid zones of the province. “Sindh would suffer the most because it will hardly receive five to nine millimetres (mm) of rain as compared to […]
By: Hafiz Muhammad Irfan Pakistan is the third most dangerous country for women in the world, according to the study conducted last year by Thomson Reuters Foundation Jirga and panchayat (community courts) system has a very long history in Asia, especially in the subcontinent. Although it is the fastest medium for dispute resolution, it has […]
ISLAMABAD: The Air Force media wing’s prompt response after militants attacked Pakistan Air Force (PAF) base Minhas in Kamra helped avert the usual chaos media outlets go through during such incidents. The office of media affairs of the PAF confirmed immediately that the base had come under attack. “A group of terrorists have attacked a […]
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, while taking notice of acid attack incident at Mayo Hospital, has directed the health secretary to provide the best treatment facilities to the affected nurses. He also ordered the DIG (operations) to immediately probe into the incident. The incident of throwing acid on duty nurses at Mayo Hospital on […]
By: Shahid Husain Karachi: In the colonial era, August 15 was marked as the cut-off point before the authorities of the time declared a drought in areas that had not received any rainfall and people would start migrating to the barrage areas. However, despite the fact that Tharparkar has not experienced a single drop of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that the government was seriously deliberating implementing the court’s verdict in the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance) case while Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa warned that even though nobody wanted to derail the democratic system, if the prime minister failed to appear before the court on August 27, […]
ISLAMABAD: Keeping with its tradition, Geo News broke the news about an attack on the Kamra airbase late on Wednesday night. According to Pakistan Standard Time, the attack was launched just after 2pm on night between Wednesday and Thursday. Within an hour of the attack, Geo News telecast the news about the attack by suspending […]
LARKANA: A woman was killed under the pretext of Karo-Kari near Ratodero here on Thursday.In the jurisdiction of Ratodero Police Station, in village Usman Umar, accused Moor Shar killed his brother’s wife Sakina w/o Waheed Shar under the allegation of honour killing and fled. The body was handed over to the heirs.Meanwhile, a protest demonstration […]
KARACHI: The World Heritage Committee has given a few more months to the Sindh government and asked it to submit a comprehensive report early next year regarding the status of and the steps taken for the Makli monuments, said the Sindh culture secretary here on Thursday. In a statement, secretary Aziz Uqaili said the world […]
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