UMERKOT: A shutterdown was observed in Ghulam Nabi Shah town on Tuesday in protest against the police failure to track down the culprits of a criminal assault on a six-year-old Hindu girl on Sunday. Several hundred people, mostly Hindus, held rallies in Umerkot, Dhoronaro and Ghulam Nabi Shah and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. […]
By: G Mursalin Marwat LAKKI MARWAT: ANP MPA Yasmeen Zia has said that provincial government took practical steps to bring women into the mainstream and resolved their problems during the last four-and-a-half years tenure. She said this while speaking at a function after distributing winter package among the deserving people at Bacha Khan Vocational Institute […]
KARACHI: Workers of various political parties and people of religious minorities on Tuesday staged protest demonstration against the sexually assault five year old girl at a village in Umerkot. A large number of Menghar community, political workers and civil society activists assembled outside the Karachi Press Club and chanted slogans for arrest of people involved […]
PESHAWAR: The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, (JMC) University of Peshawar would start a training programme from tribal journalists in collaboration with the GiZ Germany. It was decided in a meeting of GiZ team led by Stefan Schmid, Co-ordinator Fata Development Programme with Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Professor Dr Qibla Ayaz. Chairman Department […]
KARACHI: Seven people, including two Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and a Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) worker, were killed in separate acts of violence here on Tuesday. An owner of a printing press also affiliated with MQM was shot dead inside his shop at KMC Market, Nazimabad No 2 within the limits of Gulbahar police […]
By: Asghar Azad KARACHI: The Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry on Tuesday issued the second interim order in the Karachi unrest case, and barred the Sindh government from mutation, allotment, transfer and conversion of any state land, and transaction or entry in the ‘record of rights’ until the entire revenue record is reconstructed. The Supreme Court […]
MATLI: The residents of Matli organised a rally to create awareness among the masses on violence against women. Management Development Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, held the rally in the Badin district in collaboration with the USAID. A 16-day programme has been started to create awareness on women’s issues in 23 districts of Sindh. The rally’s […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has withdrawn its directive issued on September 25 about forming an international clearing house (ICH) under which only Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) was allowed to terminate all incoming international calls. The development came in the wake of Lahore High Court’s order that directed the telecom regulator to suspend the formation […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Election Commission of Pakistan to carry out door-to-door verification process of electoral rolls in Karachi with the assistance of army and Rangers, Geo News reported. The order said that the army and Rangers could be used in this verification campaign as their involvement would help the authorities in […]
By: Shahid Husain Around 68 percent of women and girls in Pakistan are subjected to sexual harassment, according to the latest Human Rights Watch (HRW) data. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the HRW said the mistreatment of women, including forced marriage, rape and domestic violence, remained a major problem in the country. Pakistan is […]
By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: The Military Intelligence (MI) has initiated a country wide exercise, where they are knocking at the doors of journalists and columnists seeking help in providing them details about themselves in a two-page form in Urdu, for what they say is a verification process. The News saw the names of nearly a […]
By: Muhammad Alam Khan BANNU: Ten persons including five cops’ sustained injuries when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an abandoned house near the building of Haved Police Station on Tuesday, official sources said. The sources said the cops guarding the police station opened fire on the vehicle. The suicide bomber, the sources […]
By: Amir Mir ISLAMABAD: The December 3 assassination attempt against Bargeeta Almby, a 72-year-old female Christian charity worker from Sweden, was in all probability, made by the al-Qaeda-linked Punjabi Taliban for siding with two Christian priests who had been accused of committing blasphemy, preliminary police investigations have indicated. Bargeeta Almby, the Managing Director of the […]
By: Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has withdrawn the imposition of International Clearing House (ICH) charges on incoming calls from abroad, meeting a sustained demand of overseas Pakistanis, said sources on Tuesday. A notification has been issued by the PTA and will be submitted before the Lahore High Court (LHC) today (Wednesday) […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
