KARACHI: Condemning hate speech on the internet in general and the anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” in particular, the Bytes for All (B4A) Pakistan said it believes that banning “channels of communication [YouTube], limiting access to information platforms and steps to curtail free expression only serve to pave the way for politics-based control systems that […]
By: Zahid Gishkori ISLAMABAD: Floods caused by the current torrential rains have affected close to 3 million people and damaged around 2.2 million acres of crops across the four provinces — killing a total of 369 people so far. According to initial estimates, some 200,000 people are awaiting shelter and relief goods — weeks after […]
By: Qurrat Ul Ain Ali KARACHI: Most people in Karachi use public transport for travelling within the city. The condition of our public transport system is there for all to see. For a working woman to travel in Karachi’s buses is a painful ordeal as it seems that conductors, drivers and male passengers believe it […]
After a high-level meeting in Islamabad involving the interior ministry, the information technology ministry, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority and the Federal Investigation Agency, the government decided to block the video sharing website YouTube and prevent access to the blasphemous anti-Islam film, which has caused fury and violence across the Muslim world. The sense of outrage […]
By: Imaduddin ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly has passed a total of 83 bills and made as many as three amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan up to September 2012 in its 44 sessions, it is learnt. According to documents available with Business Recorder, as many as five bills were passed in the joint sitting of […]
White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan (WRCP) has launched a ‘Nation-wide Journalists Engagement Programme” under which journalists will be trained on gender sensitive reporting. White Ribbon Media Awards have also been announced in different categories of print and electronic media under this programme. Moreover, WRCP held a training workshop for journalists on the code of ethics for […]
Internet troll’ and ‘Facebook hacking’ are terms few had heard of until recently. But now online abuse and identify theft have become so common that social media users are being sold specialist insurance to help protect their reputation in case of an attack, reports Daily Mail. Hacking of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media […]
By: Kamran Mansoor The decomposed and strangulated body of Fauzia, 13, was found near the University of Karachi on Tuesday. Passers-by informed police about the body, which was then shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for a postmortem. A medico-legal officer at ASH said that the body was two days old and that Fauzia […]
LAHORE: A fascinating scenario arose at the Lahore High Court on Tuesday when during the hearing of a love-marriage case, the relatives of the girl claimed that the groom was not a man but a woman. Ayesha Butt and Shahzad Butt had filed a petition seeking cancellation of an FIR that the family of the […]
By: Sabir Shah LAHORE: The 60-year old American pastor Terry Jones, the mastermind behind the blasphemous anti-Islam video film, was fined $3,800 by a German court for using the title of a “doctor,” when all he possessed was an honorary degree from an unaccredited school. According to American media reports, he was also accused by […]
KARACHI: Thirteen people, including three Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists, a deputy district officer (DDO), education, and an officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) were killed in the city on Tuesday, writes Salis bin Perwaiz. Police officials said that Deputy Director Education of SITE, Abdul Mohiuddin, was gunned down in the afternoon near the […]
By: M.B. Kalhoro LARKANA: No less than 70,000 acres of agricultural land in three union councils of Ratodero taluka was totally submerged during the recent torrential rains and flooding. The UCs — Warisdino Machi, Jummo Agham and Taib — had paddy crop grown on the lands and the growers blame officials of the Salinity Control […]
KARACHI: Agitation in the city and protests from various organisations continued on Tuesday as a large number of people took to the streets to record their anger over the anti-Islam film. Rallies were organised by the Sunni Tehreek (ST), Karachi City Alliance, Anjuman Talba-i-Islam and the Pakhtun Students Federation in different parts of Karachi. The […]
BY: WAQAR LILLAH India has interrupted transmission of FM Radio Mirpur of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and transmitted its broadcast through high-powered FM transmitter, Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting was informed on Wednesday. The committee expressed displeasure over the negligence of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation for not bringing the incident into the notice of […]
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