RAWALPINDI – Police recovered the dead body of an aged woman from the room of a local hotel in Chota Bazaar, the area of Police Station Cantonment, here on Wednesday. The deceased identified as Tahira Iqbal, 60, wife of Ghulam Sarwar, hailed from Mohra Chaudhrian, Sohawa, district Jhelum. The dead body was removed to District […]
Karachi: “The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) strongly rejects the undemocratic and unconstitutional Centralised Media Policy recently notified by the PID and resolves to resist its implementation by all means,” stated a press release of APNS. “The APNS rejected the contention of the Ministry of Information that with the implementation of the Centralised Policy the […]
Quetta: Provincial Information Minister Mohammad Younus Mullazai on Wednesday said that prevailing environment has endangered the lives of hundreds of journalists working in various media outlets in Balochistan. Talking to media persons during his visit to Press Club here to handover the withdrawal copy of the FIR lodged against the journalists for allegedly violating the […]
KARACHI: Parliamentarians, lawyers and activists on Tuesday urged the Government of Sindh to pass Domestic Violence Law before the upcoming elections in 2013. In a consultation organised by Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre to promote effective legislation to control the widespread incidence of domestic violence in Pakistan, participants stressed the need to pass the […]
By Guido Westerwelle / Rafik Ben Abdessalem Guido Westerwelle is the Foreign Minister for Germany and Rafik Ben Abdessalem is the Foreign Minister of Tunisia We have seen a hurtful portrayal of Islam’s Holy Prophet (pbuh), most likely disseminated with the intention of provoking. And on the other side, we have seen enraged crowds gathering […]
By Shafqat Hussain There has been an overkill of analyses worldwide with regard to Muslims’ reaction to the hateful video disrespecting the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in the Western media. These analyses can be divided into two types. The first type focuses on the Muslims’ reaction in terms of the Muslim ‘psychology’, concluding that Muslims […]
* Shia group’s ‘flag cell’ is preparing 500-metre-long US flag, which will be laid out in busy street to be trampled under foot RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan’s mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider’s print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations. Weeks of […]
PESHAWAR: The local journalists on Wednesday staged protest against the killing of a newsman in Khuzdar, Balochistan. C arrying placards and banners, the journalists gathered protested the Peshawar Press Club and chanted slogans against the government. Speaking on the occasion, the journalists’ representatives said the government had failed to provide them security. They asked the […]
KARACHI: A United Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has been formed after a merger of the two groups of the CPNE on Wednesday after negotiations and deliberations. Presidents of both the groups of the CPNE, Khushnood Ali Khan and Jamil Azhar, said in a statement that a united council of the CPNE has been […]
• 40 youngsters shifted to Lahore • FIR against Protection Bureau staff By Mohammad Saleem FAISALABAD: As many as 40 homeless children living under the care of the Child Protection Bureau (CPB) were shifted to Lahore following registration of an FIR carrying serious charges of child abuse against some junior staffers at a local CPB […]
LAKSHMI Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN for Women, said at the closing session of the 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden, on Aug 31 last that globally it was estimated that women spent more than 200 million hours a day collecting water. She added that development could neither be sustainable nor inclusive if […]
THIS is apropos of the letter ‘Social networking for noble causes’ (Sept 13), in which the writer has highlighted the importance of social networking in making a better society. But with the pros, come the cons. Since social networking is contemporary, especially among the youngsters, I would like to accentuate on the cause of ‘cyber-bullying’ […]
Damal Shahid ISLAMABAD: After the case of alleged Rs47 billion tax evasion by cellular companies the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Information Technology got another shock on Wednesday when it was informed that telecom and internet service providers had defaulted on Rs26 billion payable to the Universal Services Fund. Members of the committee headed by […]
KARACHI: A number of women on Wednesday staged a protest rally near Mazar-i-Quaid against the hate film, ‘Innocence of Muslims’. The rally was organised by the Karachi chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) women’s wing. Addressing the participants in the rally, Karachi JI Amir Mohammad Hussain Mehanti and other speakers demanded a global ban on the […]
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