BAHAWALPUR: Bhong police have arrested a man who, they say, has admitted to have killed his two wives in an axe attack. Mohammad Safdar has told the police that he killed his two wives following a quarrel with Jano Mai, his second wife, over her loose morals. On Friday night, he said, he attacked her […]
By: Irfan Ghauri ISLAMABAD: Data compiled by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) shows 92 million adults possess computerised national identity cards (CNICs) – of which 52 million are males and 40 million are women. The authority claims that 96% of the country’s total adult population now possesses CNICs. However, the recently published electoral […]
By Asad Farooq KARACHI: Music is considered an international language, equally loved, understood and respected across the world and beyond the borders. Asif Sinan is a Pakistani youngster who not only proved this adage absolutely correct, but also opened a door of music’s evolution by exploring new ways of bridging two extreme peaks of Eastern […]
By: Ahtesham Azhar KARACHI: Koel Art Gallery recently organised a colourful exhibition of emerging artist, Ayesha Siddiqui’s paintings, and here at its premises. The artists named the exhibition ‘Hidden Agenda’ with all of her 23 displayed paintings unnamed, leaving the visitors guessing the theme and the idea hidden behind paintings. All paintings were in dark […]
KARACHI: The rights of children are being taken as granted in Pakistani society with the incidents of violence, abuse and torture against them on rise. In the first six months of the current year, as many as 2,331 cases of violence against children were reported from different parts of the country, said a report of […]
Karachi: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned the charge of blasphemy against an 11-year-old Christian girl, residing in the village of Golra near Islamabad. “The fact that the girl is a juvenile and suffers from Down’s syndrome only makes the charge more preposterous and barbaric. It is also extremely disturbing to […]
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International, Ansar Burney, has demanded immediate release of an 11-year-old mentally-ill Christian girl Rimsha Masih, arrested on false blasphemy charges and illegally arrested by the Islamabad Police for allegedly burning pages of a Noorani Qaida. He said the complaint against an innocent girl was filed by Maulana Alsyed […]
By: Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has been advised by his legal advisers and senior PPP leaders not to appear before the Supreme Court on August 27 to face the contempt notice issued to him. Attorney General Irfan Qadir, who is against the appearance of the prime minister before the five-member bench […]
By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday rejected as ‘baseless’ and ‘unfounded’ charges from New Delhi that it was behind the mass exodus of students and workers from India’s northeast who continue to flee from Bangalore, Pune, Mumbai and other cities for fear of being attacked by Muslims. “We totally reject these allegations and insinuations. […]
MIRPURKHAS: Repair of roads and drains in Jhuddo town, damaged during last year’s heavy rains, has not yet been completed. Talking to this correspondent, former councillors Shamshad Ali, Nisar Talpur and Khalid Pervez Arain, said last year’s downpour had severely affected Jhuddo town and destroyed its infrastructure. Later, they said, the taluka municipal administration allocated […]
KARACHI: If you think that the language issue in the subcontinent reared its head a decade after partition of India, think again. It had been brewing ever since India was divided into two. Solves – India’s Language Problem – Recommends Hindustani in Devnagri and Persian Scripts”. Three months on (May 19) the same newspaper writes […]
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has strongly condemned the charge of blasphemy against an 11-year-old Christian girl, residing in the village of Golra. The fact that the girl is a juvenile and suffers from Down syndrome only makes the charge more preposterous and barbaric. It is also extremely disturbing to note that the […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Millions of people in the country, who were busy exchanging greetings through SMS, received a rude shock on the eve of Eidul Fitr when mobile phone service in some of the main cities was suspended on the direct orders of the federal government. Mobile phones in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Quetta […]
PESHAWAR: Like past years, a total of six new Pashto films will be released on Eid-ul-Fitr this year at difference cinemas in Peshawar, Swat and Mardan. In these films, peace, war and love have mainly been focused, which will begin business from the first day on Eid-ul-Fitr. Despite a mushroom growth in use of internet […]
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