PESHAWAR: A compact disc centre and two nearby shops were damaged in the busy Mian Iqbal Chowk (Stadium Chowk) in cantonment area here on Tuesday.Police said unidentified militants had planted explosives with the CD shop owned by one Khairullah that went off at around 5:30 am. The blast damaged the CD shop and two other […]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has strictly directed all the ECP officials not to issue any statement to electronic or print media. In this connection, the CEC Tuesday issued a special notification barring the ECP officials from giving press statements and appearing before the electronic and print media. The CEC made it […]
By Obaid Abbasi ISLAMABAD: A capital court on Tuesday summoned the head of the state-run television channel, Pakistan Television (PTV), after the network’s counsel failed to convince the court that the official was appointed on merit. During the proceedings, PTV’s counsel Shahid Mehmood Khokhar submitted the notification of PTV Managing Director (MD) Yousaf Baig Mirza’s […]
Jamal Shahid ISLAMABAD: Although the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) appreciated measures taken to ensure participation of women in the upcoming elections, the statutory body believes there remains a lot more to do. At a press conference held on Tuesday, the NCSW urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to increase representation of […]
SANGHAR: Sindhi poet Sher Mohammad Ujjan, better known as Aajiz Ujjan, passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness in his native village near Perumal, 40 kilometres from Sanghar. He was 65 years old. He was laid to rest in Buharam Bari graveyard in his village. He leaves a son. Ujjan became popular when one […]
THERE has been a dearth of learned writers on music in Pakistan. If the writers themselves are practising musicians, especially vocalists, and also possess writing skills, they are in a better position to explain and convey to the readers the rich heritage of classical music in the subcontinent and the significance of innumerable raags. Most […]
Send to Kindle ISLAMABAD: The body of a police officer’s daughter, who was raped and murdered in November last year, was exhumed for collecting samples on Tuesday. The capital administration had on March 23 allowed the police to exhume the bodies of two girls who were separately raped and killed in November 2012 and February […]
By Ihsan Bittani TANK: Gulana Bibi, 70-year-old illiterate woman candidate for PK-69, Tank seat, on Tuesday said if the people elected her to the assembly, she would work for protection of women’s rights, better educational facilities and provision of clean drinking water in the area. Ms Gulana, who will contest the upcoming elections on Muttahida […]
by Parvez Jabri ISLAMABAD: Sindh province is on top with 84 percent mobile phone penetration followed by Punjab where such penetration touched 68.1 percent mark till 2012. Other provinces have less than 50 percent penetration i.e. Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KPK) 42.2 percent and Balochistan 45.9 percent. The government and regulator Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have been […]
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