Shazia Hasan Injured school girl Ameena Bibi looks at her X-ray while Attaur Rahman, a guest at the Nation Secondary School ceremony on Saturday, speaks to media at the Civil Hospital Karachi emergency ward. -White Star Injured school girl Ameena Bibi looks at her X-ray while Attaur Rahman, a guest at the Nation Secondary School […]
Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Speakers shed light on the invaluable contributions of Dawn columnist Ardeshir Cowasjee to humanity at a memorial held in his honour in the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation’s Agha Hassan Abedi auditorium on Saturday evening. Dr Adibul Hassan Rizvi gave a presentation on Mr Cowasjee’s achievements and began by saying that […]
ISLAMABAD: A couple, who contracted love marriage about two years back, reached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) levelling serious charges against each other. Sheikh Amir Naseem filed a petition against his wife Mehvish Gilani after she demanded Rs200 million which was mentioned as a dowry in their ‘Nikah Nama’. Naseem tried to convince the IHC […]
SUKKUR, March 30: A man and a woman were shot dead on suspicion of having illicit relations in Ali Bukhsh Jakhrani village of Jacobabad district on Saturday. According to sources, Nawab Ali aka Takri, son of Mian Bukhsh Jakhrani, was working in a field when suspects, identified by the bereaved family as Kaishoo Khan Jakhrani […]
Ahad Malik passes away LAHORE, March 30: Ahad Malik, a film producer for over 40 years and twice elected member of the Punjab Assembly, died here after a protracted illness on Saturday morning and was buried the same evening. He had been bed-ridden for the last two years after suffering a paralysis attack. He suffered […]
SUKKUR: A 13-year-old boy was allegedly burnt to death after being subjected to severe torture in Khanpur Mahar town, Ghotki district, on Saturday. The boy, son of a schoolteacher in Khangarh town, faced the savagery in an agricultural area on the outskirts of Khanpur Mahar. He was taken to the Civil Hospital, Ghotki, which in […]
ECP shuts down website after cyber attacks ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to shift its website to another server after cyber attacks continued on the second day. The ECP stated that despite second cyber attack, all data was safe and the website has been temporarily closed as a preventative measure. The […]
By Farooq Baloch The cyber attack on ECP’s website is being discussed across various internet forums with people complaining about being unable to visit the site. KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s website was reportedly attacked by an Indian hacker on Friday. The website is currently down. The attacker has defaced the home […]
LAHORE: Facing difficulties in finalising candidates for certain constituencies, mostly in Lahore, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif has extended deliberations of the central parliamentary board up to Tuesday (April 2), it is learnt. On Saturday, the PML-N board completed the list of aspirants for women’s reserved seats both in national and provincial assemblies. A party official […]
By Our Correspondent KARACHI: The work of nine miniature artists, including Farina Alam, Mizna Zulfiqar and Sophia Mairaj, has been put up at an exhibition, ‘Way back home’, which opened at Unicorn Gallery on March 29. The curator, Soraya Sikandar explained that the artists had taken between three to eight months to put the paintings […]
Our correspondent MINGORA: A man killed his daughter-in-law and threw the body into the Swat River in Bahrain on Saturday, sources said. The sources said that Jameer along with his two daughters Shahida and Banafsha killed his daughter-in-law Farzana and swept her body into the Swat River. After registering the case on the complaint of […]
Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: A Pakistani student from Lahore has been elected the Students’ Union President at the University of Salford as the first ever female international to represent 20,000 students for a year. Another Pakistani, Benazir Bhutto, had earlier been elected as Oxford University students’ union president. Mishal Saeed, a former student of Lahore […]
KARACHI: The annual meeting of the APNS General Council, held here on Saturday at the APNS House, has elected the Executive Committee for the year 2013-14. According to a press release, the general council meeting unanimously elected Sarmad Ali as President, Dr Jabbar Khattak as Senior Vice President, Masood Hamid as Secretary General, Imtinan Shahid […]
Salis bin Perwaiz Karachi: The principal of a girls’ school was shot dead and six students were hurt in a brazen bomb and gun attack in Ittehad Town, a neighbourhood in Baldia Town, on Saturday. The girls were all aged between eight and 10. The Nation High School was midway through an award distribution ceremony […]
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