By: Zeeshan Azmat Karachi: Public service broadcast should be free from government influence, said the former federal information minister on Saturday. Speaking as the chief guest at a seminar titled ‘Media Ethics: Challenges and Issues’, Javed Jabbar said changes are required in the media and the country’s foreign policy. The seminar was organised by Sindh […]
ISLAMABAD: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has rejected the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration Rules 2013 framed by the Federal Information and Broadcasting Ministry wherein the Press Registrar has been given arbitrary powers to disqualify a publisher or refuse to authenticate a declaration. The APNS Executive Committee termed these rules as negation […]
The additional district and sessions court West sentenced a man to 10 years in jail in a rape case.Mohammad Shakeel was prosecuted for raping a Matric student in Mominabad. The prosecution said Shakeel, a rickshawdriver, provided pick and drop service to the survivor for school and raped her on August 11, 2008. Source: The News
SUKKUR: Three people were killed on the pretext of Karo-Kari in different areas of the Sukkur region on Saturday. Police said in Village Kakri in the limits of Lakha Road Police Station accused Shah Dost Brohi shot dead his daughter Dur-e-Bakht and her alleged paramour Abdul Qadir Brohi. Later, the accused surrendered himself before the […]
By: Umar Cheema ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has promised that the first legislation to be passed by the next Punjab Assembly will be the Right to Information law if the PML-N came into power, rekindling a hope for the media and civil society organizations struggling for this legislation. “Mark my words. This […]
By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Speakers lauded the services of poetess Shabnam Shakeel, who passed away on March 2, to the world of literature at a literary reference organised by the Academy of Letters, Sindh, and Tehzeeb Foundation at a hotel on Saturday. The event was presided over by poetess Zehra Nigah while Chairman of the […]
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The Lakha Road police arrested a man on Saturday for allegedly killing his teenage daughter and a young man on the pretext of Karo-kari. Lakha Road SHO Shaukat Kabir said that the suspect, 50-year-old Shahdost Brohi, shot and killed 15-year-old Durre Bakht, his daughter, and 20-year-old Abdul Wadir Brohi, a relative, on the […]
By: Israr Ahmad RAWALPINDI – A six-year-old girl, daughter of an army man from Haripur, was allegedly raped by unknown men during eye operation at Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital (ASETH), informed police here on Saturday. A rape case against unknown rapists has been lodged with Police Station Morgah on the complaint of father of victim […]
LAHORE: With a view to sensitise Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and DDMAs on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction’ for better preparedness of the unforeseen natural catastrophes in future, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with CIDA – Pakistan arranged a two-day workshop on “Disaster Risk Management – Mainstreaming DRR into Development” in Lahore. Chairman NDMA […]
By: Lal Khan Although the Islamic parties have been politically weak with a limited social base, their hold on society is aided by their links to the different institutions of the state The burning down of 178 houses on the night of March 8 and 9 in Joseph Colony, a Christian neighbourhood near Badami Bagh […]
Mithi: Sindh Culture Minister Ms. Sassui Palijo inaugurated on Friday the Marvi Cultural Centre at Bhalwal village of Tehsil Nagarparkar, district Tharparkar. The Bhalwal is home village of legendary character Marvi. The project has been completed at the cost of Rs.14 million to promote cultural activities in the area. The culture department organizes annual festival […]
By Rameez Khan Vehicle owners can get details of registration and token tax payments via SMS, in order to curb fraud by ‘agents’. LAHORE: The Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department is to launch an SMS service for Lahore in a month where vehicle owners can get details of registration and token tax payments in order […]
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