KARACHI: Chief Minister (CM) Qaim Ali Shah reshuffled portfolios of two cabinet members on Friday. According to a handout, Sharmila Farooqi, special assistant to CM on media affairs, has now been put in charge of the Auqaf department. Haji Khan Chachar, another adviser to the CM, has been allotted the portfolio of narcotics. The Auqaf […]
KARACHI: Actor and dramatist, Rasheed Sabir, passed away on Friday evening in a private hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 70 and left behind three sons and five daughters. Sabir was laid to rest at Moriro Mirbaher graveyard. Sabir wrote dramas for PTV, Radio Pakistan and Sindhi TV channels. He himself performed as an […]
Sir: According to reports, a 70-year-old woman from Ghotki has been accused by her husband of having an affair with a 17-year-old youth. She has hence been declared as ‘kari’, an accusation that could get her a death penalty by a tribal court if it is taken seriously. Her husband has said that she was […]
PESHAWAR: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has set up a page on Facebook to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video, a spokesman confirmed on Friday. The Umar Media TTP page, which has more than 270 likes, appears to have been created in September and has just a handful of messages […]
KARACHI: Nine people, including three unidentified youths and two activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were gunned down in different targeted attacks on Friday, police said. The three youths’ bodies stuffed in gunny bags were found at around 7am in an auto-rickshaw parked outside gate No. 4 of the Karachi Zoological Garden within the jurisdiction […]
Nasir Iqbal ISLAMABAD: The Arsalan Iftikhar-Malik Riaz saga finally ended, at least in the Supreme Court, after it closed its proceedings on Friday and ordered the wrapping up of the commission that was appointed to investigate an alleged financial deal between the two. The Dr Shoaib Suddle commission was dissolved after it submitted its report […]
Faiza Ilyas JACOBABAD: “Neither the floods spared us nor did the landlords. They are telling us to pay for the expenses incurred on crop cultivation without realising the fact that the entire harvest has been destroyed in the floods. It wasn’t our fault but God’s will,” protested a farmer waiting for his turn to receive […]
ISLAMABAD: A bill aimed to resolve different issues faced by senior citizens has been prepared for the federal capital territory. “The Islamabad Capital Territory Senior Citizens Welfare Bill 2012 has been drafted by the Ministry of Capital Administration and Development prepared (CAD),” says a press release issued by CAD on Friday. To take input from […]
UMERKOT: Speakers at a seminar on Friday called for the implementation of anti-violence laws and said that the lack of implementation was responsible for the increasing number of cases of violence against women. They were speaking at an event titled “Rights of women, violence against them and the role of youth’ organised by a local […]
Bhagwandas KARACHI: In a rare show of unity, Sindh Assembly members on Friday stood up and unanimously adopted all the four resolutions against a Lahore High Court directive pertaining to the controversial Kalabagh dam. This was the fourth time that the Sindh Assembly adopted resolutions against the construction of the controversial dam, which is also […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: The second day of the 5th International Urdu Conference was marked by two important sessions on some of the giants of art and literature at the Arts Council on Friday. Interesting thoughts were presented in the afternoon session titled Bayad-i-Raftagan presided over by Begum Lutfullah Khan, on the lives and works of […]
HYDERABAD: Journalists in Umerkot, including Daily Sindh Express reporter Mushtaq Kunbhar, have received threatening calls for reporting the rape of a six-year-old girl in Meghwadh colony in Umerkot. Kunbhar was physically assaulted on Friday for reporting a particular name. The incident took place on December 2 in Meghwadh colony when the girl, V, went missing […]
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