Islamabad: The standing committee of the National Assembly on Information and Broadcasting has expressed its displeasure on the ongoing campaign in the electronic and print media designed to criticize the ideology of Pakistan. The Committee directed the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and also the Press Council of Pakistan to take steps to put an […]
By: Bari Baloch QUETTA: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Balochistan chapter officials have turned down the invitation of government to visit Dera Bugti. According to HRCP sources, Chief Secretary Balochistan while leaving for Dera Bugti two days ago invited some officials of HRCP to accompany him during the visit. However, the Commission rejected the […]
By: NADEEM ZUBERI The collection of paintings portraying various messages through soft expressions of poetry, masterly skills and naturalism in a solo show by Zebun Zuby at Majmua Gallery, Karachi is an interpretation of remarkable poetry by some of the eminent poets of Urdu literature. The hidden themes in poetry are painted in a pleasant […]
KARACHI: Father, husband or unknown are the only three choices a woman has if she wants to fill in a form for an adopted child’s registration in Pakistan. The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) has no column for ‘guardian’, which is what Ayesha Jalil learned when she went to its office to register the baby […]
By: Z Ali HYDERABAD: Bagrani villagers rejoiced on Friday as a Badin court convicted 65 men for illegally occupying an archaeological site believed to date to the Mughal era. Devri jo Daro or mound of the top, is located around 17 kilometers away from Matli taluka and coins with Arabic inscriptions have been found here. […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s (HRCP’s) 2012 Fact-Finding Report on Balochistan reveals many festering wounds inflicting the province. Things are so bad that any hope that one could muster the courage to entertain is hurriedly shunted from the mind by the realisation that neither the provincial nor federal government calls the shots there. According […]
By: Yaqub Shahzad / Kaleem Rauf HAFIZABAD / SIALKOT: Vanike Tarar police have arrested two men accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Soyanwala village. A medical examination at Hafizabad district headquarters (DHQ) hospital on Friday confirmed that the child had been raped. Police said DNA samples had now been sent to a laboratory. […]
By: Aroosa Shaukat LAHORE: Pakistan’s first enterprise incubator, called Plan9 Tech Incubator, was launched on Friday by the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) in collaboration with the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT and ITES (P@SHA). The ceremony was held at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park. The project had been launched simultaneously in Islamabad, Karachi […]
KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Friday directed senior superintendent police (SSP), Karachi, to arrest and produce two accused absconding in case pertaining to kidnap of a freewill couple declared karo-kari (liable to be killed for honour) since 2009. A two-member bench, comprising Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Amir Hani Muslim, also […]
The PML-N stalwart Chaudhry Nisar’s recent accusations that some TV channels owners and anchors have been bribed by the government ahead of the 2013 elections represents a good moment to reflect on the state of the media since it came into its own in this last decade. Nisar says he has ‘proof’ to back his […]
By: Mansoor Ahmad LAHORE: International incoming and outgoing call rates will register a steep increase if the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) goes ahead with its plan to allow all incoming and outgoing international calls only through the PTCL but the Competition Commission of Pakistan has created major hurdles. The CCP has, in a policy note […]
By: Usman Manzoor ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s statement that journalists and media houses were being “bought” by the incumbent PPP government has set tongues wagging about their names, but ironically, exactly 10 years ago, the PPP was asking the same question from the then military government. The PPP had filed a reference in the […]
SUKKUR: A man killed his former sister-in-law and her daughter in their house in ADC Colony in Jacobabad late on Thursday night over suspicions they had illicit relations with men. Ghulam Abbas Jakhrani shot dead Ms Girah Naz, 45, divorcee of his brother late Ghulam Hussain Jakhrani and then killed her daughter Ms Ghulam Sughra, […]
HYDERABAD: Girls swept almost all top positions in the annual examination for the Higher Secondary Certificate Part-II of all groups, according to results announced by the Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Friday. Top three positions in pre-medical group were bagged by Maheen Shahid with 947 marks, Sadia Shaikh with 940 and Rida […]
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