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Daily Archives: October 5, 2012

Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors groups get united; new office-bearers announced

LAHORE: The two groups of the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) have decided to merge themselves into a single entity, settling all their differences after prolonged discussions. A statement issued by the presidents of the two groups Khushnood Ali Khan and Athar Jamil said that a united CPNE has come into being as a […]


Jamaat-i-Islami to hold anti-film rally on Sunday

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has finalised arrangements for its much-awaited rally against the anti-Islam film in the metropolis which will now take place on Sunday, October 7, JI spokesman said on Thursday. The JI had postponed its ‘Namoos e Mustafa’ march against the sacrilegious movie earlier for some reasons. The march will now be staged on main […]


Floods affected over 11,000 villages in Sindh

BY: YASIR BABBAR The recent heavy rains/floods have badly affected more than 11,000 small and big villages in 12 districts of Sindh and people of the affected areas are facing worst times in relief camps, Business Recorder learnt on Thursday. Sindh Relief department in its reports regarding the losses of recent rains/flood said that the […]


South Asian Free Media Association, South Asia Media Commission outraged at Khuzdar journalist’s killing

LAHORE: South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) and South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) have condemned the killing of a television reporter in Balochistan and called for an investigation into the murder. Police said Abdul Haq, who worked for a private TV channel, was shot while driving home around 100 yards from the local press club […]


No let-up in Balochistan violence; four more killed

QUETTA: As many as four people were killed and three others were injured in separate incidents in Quetta and Khuzdar on Thursday. In the first incident, a man was killed and two others, including a Finance Department employee, sustained injuries after they came under fire in the Khuchlak area of Quetta. According to police, the […]


With love, from Mirpurkhas

By: Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Vada, a Sindhi word for carpenter, is a project initiated by brothers Abdul Jabbar Gull and Abdul Sattar, who have carried on their ancestral wood-work with a modern twist. Exclusivity in furniture designs is the focus of the designer brothers, whose workers are based in Mirpurkhas. Vada Furniture is back in […]


Safeguarding the rights of children

By: Iftikhar Mubarik LAHORE: Article 25(3) of the Constitution recognises the right of protection for children due to their vulnerability. Pakistan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990 and this provides a broad framework for the promotion and protection of child rights. Under the Convention, the legal age […]


Public’s psyche and ‘dismal’ police blamed for violence in Karachi

KARACHI: It appears that the endless rounds of targeted killings, missing children and rioting during rallies in the city had flummoxed members of the National Assembly’s committee on human rights, who proposed the formation of an anti-riot police force in Karachi on Thursday. MNA Riaz Fatiyana, who is the committee’s chairman, MNA Dr Atia Inayatullah […]


Senate panel calls for action against illegal SIMs

By: Ammar Shahbazi Karachi: Out of the 120 million SIM cards in circulation across Pakistan, 67% (80 million) are illegal as they are either issued against bogus documents or no documents at all, stated Sharfuddin Memon, consultant to the Home Department of Sindh, who quoted figures from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authorities (PTA). He was speaking […]


Anti-Islam movie: Religious parties call for Islamic summit

LAHORE: An All Parties Conference (APC) of religious parties demanded the Muslim rulers call an Islamic summit to register an effective protest against the US blasphemous movie. It also demanded moving a resolution in the UN for a global law for respect of religions, besides holding a trial of the makers, promoters and distributors of […]


Supreme Court resumes hearing of Prime Minister contempt case today

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will resume hearing of the contempt of court case against Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf today (Friday). A five-member bench of the apex court comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Aijaz Afzal Khan, Justice Aijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Athar Saeed will take up the contempt […]


Peshawar High Court orders exhumation of missing person’s body

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday ordered exhumation and post-mortem of the body of a missing person who was killed while escaping from the custody of the armed forces in Peshawar Cantonment area some 40 days ago along with two other militants. A two-member bench comprising Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice […]


Duty and death

Despite the obvious risks it carries, journalism had not been associated with death in Pakistan. All this changed in 2002 – since then some 80 journalists have been killed, most of them in the ‘war zones’ that have crept up across the country. Others have been gunned down in cities. In 2011, Pakistan was among […]


Journalist dies in Multan

MULTAN: Iqbal Butt, an electronic media journalist, passed away in Nishtar Hospital here on Thursday. Iqbal Butt, 46, was hospitalised on Wednesday night after suffering from brain haemorrhage and paralysis on right side of the body. He breathed his last Thursday morning at the hospital. Iqbal Butt had worked for many news TV channels and […]