ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday submitted a resolution in the Senate to condemn the anti-Islam movie. The resolution moved by Senator Ishaq Dar, leader of the opposition in the Upper House, read the Senate of Pakistan condemned in strongest terms the airing of the movie which seemed to be a vilification campaign […]
The data gathered in August shows government/elected officials made only 83 visits to the monitored dispensaries (June-August 2012 quarter), meaning at least 50 percent facilities were ignored altogether, says a Free and Fair Election (FAFEN) report. The report released on Friday said low oversight often leaves staff at dispensaries taking little interest in their duties. […]
By: Jahanzaib Haque “Instead of bringing us all together in an omnipresent, multifaceted discussion, the internet has made sectarianism an almost default position.” Author Patrick Ness said these troubling words at a recent writers’ conference in Edinburgh. What did he mean by these words? Those who have been regularly visiting The Express Tribune online and […]
QUETTA: At least four people were killed in violence on Friday in the volatile Balochistan province. A worker of the Building and Roads Department – identified as Abdul Karim – was shot dead by gunmen in the Kharkh Road neighbourhood of Khuzdar district. Police shifted the body to the district headquarters hospital for autopsy. Police […]
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday sought a detailed report from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the Pakistan Electronic Media and Regulatory Authority (Pemra) regarding steps taken by them to stop blasphemous material on internet. The counsels of the PTA and Pemra appeared before the court and sought more time to file […]
Karachi: More violence was reported in the city on Friday as three people, including workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Dawat-i-Islami, were killed in separate incidents. The tortured and bullet-riddled body if MQM worker Amin Ahmed was found lying dead in the Moosa Lane in the morning. Station House Officer (SHO) Haji Sanaullah […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: Millions of dollars will be spent and services of our main spy agency will be used to check emails and curb blasphemous and obscene web sites on the Internet, the PTA’s top boss announced on Friday. A cyber security mechanism for monitoring purposes of voice and data communications has been devised […]
KARACHI: The Ansar Burney Trust International is in search of a family of one deaf and mute Indian girl stranded in Pakistan since last 13 long years and waiting to go back to meet her family in India. Chairman of Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal Minister for Human Rights, Ansar Burney, along with […]
By: Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: Objecting to the third paragraph of the draft letter to be sent to the Swiss attorney general in Geneva for reopening the graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the government to submit a revised draft by October 10. “The last paragraph of the letter […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: In art, the repetition of a subject lends the artwork the kind of one-dimensionality that can make the viewer experience visual fatigue. If the artist keeps rediscovering something revelatory in their chosen subject only then can they sustain the viewer’s interest. It is not an easy task to draw a bird […]
ISLAMABAD: Senate Deputy Chairman Sabir Ali Baloch has rejected a reference seeking disqualification of Interior Minister Rehman Malik, sources told Dawn. They said the reference filed by Maulvi Iqbal Haider Advocate was disposed of by Mr Baloch in his capacity as the acting chairman of the Senate on Oct 1. Maulvi Haider said he had […]
By: MOHAMMAD AAMIR KHAN I AM shocked to the limits by the unprecedented aloofness of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority. Is it in their knowledge that how many useful websites stand blocked on the PTCL broadband network? A small reference could be Google translation. I would like to ask when our society would stop being so […]
By: EHSAN MEHMOOD KHAN AFGHAN spokesperson Sayed Ihsanuddin Taheri recently said: “The government has decided to ban all Pakistani newspapers in Afghanistan.” He added that newspapers had been banned because “in recent months Pakistani newspapers have started an anti-Afghan government campaign, especially in eastern provinces”. He also said: “The newspapers print Taliban propaganda, question the […]
By: FAKHIR HAYAT OSTO ONCE again the people of Jacobabad district have been left at the mercy of nature to survive through the trauma created by floods. A 40-hour-long record downpour proved more than enough to collapse the entire irrigation and drainage system. The worst-hit is the region of Jacobabad taluka. This is the part […]
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