By: Israr Ahmad RAWALPINDI: The defence lawyers on Saturday filed an application with Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi Number 1, urging it to either implement its earlier order of in-camera trial of Mumbai attack case or open the proceedings for media and public. Special Judge Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman, who has been trying the seven accused arrested in […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan celebrated the National Working Women’s Day on Saturday with the aim to honour working women and convey a message to society that women’s role in nation building cannot be ignored. The objective of observing the day on December 22 every year is to recognise the contribution made by working women in social uplift, […]
By: FARIS JAFFREY Disturbing news reports recently tell of how two minor girls, Salma aged nine and Rukaiyya aged 11, have been recovered by police in Multan after they were declared wani (compensation) by a tribal court. The fact that such cases are on the rise and are being reported left, right and centre just […]
KARACHI: The Second Floor (T2F) was transformed into an avant-garde truck artist’s workshop on Saturday afternoon, as the students of Haque Academy displayed their take on what has become one of the most recognisable forms of art in the country. Titled Pakaleidoscope, the exhibit by the department of visual arts at Haque Academy showed off […]
By: Hina Khwaja Bayat KARACHI: “Do not let foreign culture infiltrate your society, unless as a nation you have a clear vision regarding what to accept and what to reject that is being fed to you through foreign culture.” — Mao Zedong to Ashfaq Ahmed. This was the vision for a great China — shutting […]
By: Zain Gardezi LAHORE: This is with reference to Bina Shah’s article on December 19 titled “Hands off the reserved seats for women, please”. I tried finding some definition, ANY definition, of feminism that may suggest that women should have ‘favourable’ rights with respect to men, to make me understand the reaction to Imran Khan’s […]
By: Ghulam Rasool Soomro CHACHRO: A 14-year-old Hindu girl, N, was raped allegedly by a local leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) early Friday morning near Chachro, Umerkot. The suspect, M, forcibly entered the victim’s house in Mubarak Tarr village, which is 35 kilometres from Chachro, along with two other men. He tortured the […]
By: Syed Moayyed Ali Jafri The recent issue regarding airing of foreign dramas on Pakistani channels has rung up bells, gongs and what not, of concern and alarm among artistes and producers. “It’s important to understand what we are most concerned about; it definitely is not the competition, has very little to do with the […]
A recent assessment found Pakistani media sliding down on every count of editorial independence and professional standards, from an already unenviable position three years ago. But members of civil society differ. They feel the scale of decline is much bigger than shown by the report. Asian Media Barometer first conducted home-grown analysis of the media […]
By: Usman Manzoor Islamabad: The Finance Ministry has also barred Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) from violating Public Procurement Rules in hiring consultants for auction of one to two billion dollars 3G Spectrum clearly mentioning that “no deviation from the rules may be allowed or tolerated under any circumstances”, documents reveal. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) […]
Karachi: In Pakistan the trophy hunting programme is being confused with illegal poaching, noted a meeting of the IUCN Member Organisations’ National Committee. The meeting was chaired by Shahid Sayeed Khan, chief executive officer of NGO Indus Earth, on Saturday. The members expressed concern over a news report that appeared in a section of the […]
Karachi: The additional district and session’s court (East) on Saturday sentenced a man to 14 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a rape case. Mohammad Tahir was prosecuted for molesting a girl in the Korgani Industrial Area police remit. According to the prosecution, Tahir subjected his neighbour, Z, to rape on December 1, 2008. The court, having […]
MANSEHRA: A man and a woman were killed in the name of honour in Kayhal area of Kohistan on Saturday. Fazalur Rehman and his brother Mohammad Yousuf were attacked by Hamayun Khan and his sons Mehtab and Aftab when they were working in their fields in Kayhal area of Kohistan. As a result Fazalur Rehman […]
By: Saleem Shahid QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Aslam Bhootani said on Saturday that Sindhi and Baloch cultures and languages always taught lesson of peace and love to different nationalities and tribes living in the region. Speaking at Sindh Culture Day organised by a TV channel at the Quetta press club, he said cultural traditions and […]
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