By: Azfar ul-Ashfaque KARACHI, Sept 29: Most lawmakers in the 168-member Sindh Assembly did not take much interest in parliamentary business and not even bothered to attend the sessions on a regular basis, as the average attendance rate in the house was not even half of the total number of the elected representatives during the […]
NANKANA SAHIB: A police official raped young girl on gunpoint here the other day. As per detail, Aume Lilal, a resident of village Kamalpur in the remit of Shahkot Saddr, was alone in her home when Muhar Hussain, a police employee in Lahore entered the house and raped the girl. DRUGS seized: The police seized […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: A two-day Gandhara Film Festival ended with the best feature film (full-length) award going to ‘Heer Ranjha’ by Karimul Islam at the PACC auditorium on Saturday evening. The day began with a short film ‘Divine Nostalgia’ by Sikander Malik. It was a nice effort in the sense that it was about […]
By: Peerzada Salman Charlie Chaplin is perhaps the most quoted film personality in the history of moviemaking. One of his famous lines about art (read: life) is: “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long shot.” There is a semblance of truth in this observation. When the news of the […]
KARACHI: Participants in ‘Tahaffuz-i-Namoos-i-Risalat Rally’ filled M.A. Jinnah Road on Saturday a few hours after the Sindh governor accepted a request of the Jamaat Ahl-i-Sunnat Pakistan, Sunni Tehreek and assorted clerics for the march despite a three-day ban placed on Friday by the government on processions and rallies in Karachi. The rally, which began a […]
DERA GHAZI KHAN: The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has announced extending medical cover to the residents of flood-affected areas for three months besides provision of six water filtration plants for DG Khan, Rajanpur, Jacobabad, Qamber Shadad Kot, Nasirabad and Jaferabad with a capacity of 3,000 litre per hour. This was announced by PRCS Chairman […]
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed sorrow and grief over the demise of the reporter of ARY News, Abdul Haq Baloch, who was shot dead by unidentified persons in Khuzdar. In a condolence message here on Saturday, Shah also sympathised with the members of the bereaved family. Special Assistants to CM […]
By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: A petition has been moved praying the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take a suo moto notice of the illegal activities of Google search engine in Pakistan and its subsidiary YouTube that uploaded a blasphemous video sparking violence and causing damage to the property worth millions. The petitioner has prayed directing […]
Karachi: The Sindh government issued four notifications on Saturday for implementing the Sindh People’s Local Government Ordinance-2012 under which metropolitan corporations have been constituted in the five districts of the province. According to sources privy to the Local Government Department affairs, the metropolitan corporations would start functioning in Karachi, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Larkana, and Mirpurkhas. According […]
KARACHI: On a writ petition filed by Hum TV, Express Entertainment, TV ONE, ARY Digital and Geo Entertainment, Justice Mrs Ayesha Malik of the Lahore High Court, after hearing in detail all the parties, including senior most officials of Pemra, directed the local distributor of a foreign TV channel to immediately stop showing any Indian […]
By: Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: The government is planning to monitor and notify official ratings (viewership) of private television channels and regulate government advertisements for them accordingly. Under the plan, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has approved formation of the Department of Electronic Media (Dem) in the ministry of information to specifically deal with the […]
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