Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s Founder and leader Altaf Hussain on Friday observed that the nation stood united for the first time after the 1965 war beside the Pakistan Army in a last ditch effort in protecting the country. He shared these views with Pervez Shaukat, the president of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) during a […]
By: Arturo Ramo Currently, there is much talk about ecology and protection of the environment in the media. Care for the environment is one of the biggest challenges humanity faces right now, highlighting global warming and the scarcity of energy resources. In places like Africa, there are serious problems of erosion and desertification of large […]
By: Tariq Farid LAHORE: Women police personnel are only 0.86 percent of the total police force in the country and yet they cannot find any important position such as investigation officer or a prosecutor due to gender discrimination in the police department. There are 19 women police stations in the country, including seven in Gilgit-Baltistan, […]
Karachi: The district and sessions judge (South) on Friday summoned the station house officer (SHO) and a constable of the Karachi Cantt police station to appear in court on Saturday (today) after a woman complained that the constable had abducted her niece. Judge Hasan Feroz issued the summon orders after two court bailiffs raided the […]
Karachi Six people were gunned down in separate incidents in the city on Friday. Ghulam Ali, 27, was gunned down near Cement Hospital on Baghdadi Road in the morning. According to SHO Haji Sanaullah, deceased Ghulam Ali was a resident of Risala area and working as labourer at a betel nuts shop in Chabbah Gali. […]
By: Shakeel Anjum ISLAMABAD: The Smart National Identity Cards (SNICs) will be accepted as secondary ID on all international airports; the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) said here Friday. Nadra Chairman Tariq Malik unveiled new SNICs — Smart National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis (SNICOP) and Smart Pakistan Origin Card (SPOC) — design as […]
In his article ‘What is an error-free voters’ list?’ (Oct 11), Naeem Sadiq raised his concerns over the Final Electoral Rolls 2012. The writer believes that the population of Pakistan should be 190 million based on the 1998 Census and has assumed a gap of 12.6 million in voters’ list. According to the Population Census […]
By: Mumtaz Alvi ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday unanimously asked the government to withdraw what it called the totally unjustified tax on incoming calls from the overseas Pakistanis, claiming it was a ploy of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to earn billions of rupees. Under this tax, the cartels of LDI operators would pay over-due […]
LARKANA: Parents kept their nine-year-old daughter in chains for four months for fear she might flee home, it emerged on Friday. Police found Mehrunissa Bhutto chained to the trunk of a date-palm tree when they raided the premises of her house in Ghulam Bhutto village on the outskirts of the city on Friday. ASP Abrar […]
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings by Abrar Ahmed opens at the Ocean art galleries at 5.30pm on Saturday. The show titled “Romance of classic” will be open till Oct 15 daily from 11am to 9pm. Dawn
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is considering establishing a censor board for checking obscenity in movies and CD and tele-films. This was stated by provincial culture minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain during a Peshawar Press Club function organised to mark the fourth death anniversary of Pashto film star Badar Munir. The minister expressed anger at growing […]
ISLAMABAD: Shahid Toosy, a former director of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), will hold an exhibition at Gallery6 to illustrate his spiritual connection with the nature on Saturday. The paintings put on the display titled Spiritual Connection, comprising 27 artworks in water colours and five in oil on canvas, mostly focus on the […]
By: khaliqgul ISLAMABAD: Calling for zero tolerance towards child marriage, a latest report of the United Nations has feared that the number of girl child marriages will increase dramatically over the next 10 years and more than 142 million girls are at risk of this human rights abuse. The number of children marrying each year […]
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