ISLAMABAD: Naushaba Siddiqui, a noted academician and author of several books in Urdu, was honoured at a literary gathering held in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Poet Shaukat Jamal, who hosted the programme, said Siddiqui had remained a dedicated teacher for about 40 years at various colleges in Karachi, according to a Saudi Gazette report […]
MANSEHRA: The alleged killer of Orangi pilot project’s director Naheed Perween Rehman was arrested here on Thursday. Addressing a press conference at his office, Deputy Superintendent of Police Zulfiqar Khan Jadoon said the notorious target killer had been arrested in an operation carried out jointly by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh police and personnel of intelligence […]
Says apology is first tendered in SC and next day insulting programme aired again; it seems channel CEO, anchorperson have great lust for money; asks Pemra to monitor ARY programmes ISLAMABAD: Justice Ijaz Chaudhry of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday observed that people were being maligned on the ARY channel saying the channel chief […]
LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Shehzad Raza Wednesday granted interim bail to woman Maryam Safdar by March 24 allegedly involved in crushing two people to death in a bid to protect herself from the charged mob of Christian community in Youhanabad. The court granted the bail to the accused petitioner against furnishing bail […]
KARACHI: There has been an increase of over 63 per cent in the number of people killed in ‘encounters’ with personnel of law enforcement agencies between January and February in 2015 as compared to the first two months of 2014, though the total number of overall killings that took place during the same period has […]
LAHORE: Funeral service for 10 victims of the suicide attacks on churches was held at the St Jones Girls High School amid tight security and even neighbouring areas of Youhanabad were sealed on Tuesday. The coffins were brought to the school where a large number of relatives and friends of the victims were present. Gloom […]
HYDERABAD: The Central Jail Hyderabad’s Superintendent Aijaz Hyder informed the Sindh High Court (SHC) here Tuesday that Syed Qari Hashim Shah, who was acquitted in US journalist Daniel Pearl’s murder case, has been released from the prison. The court was hearing a petition filed by Syed Khalid Imran Shah, brother, who maintained that despite the […]
ISLAMABAD: In a rare but much-needed move, the otherwise inactive Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has warned all the television channels against airing live programmes, including interviews and speeches, containing defamatory and objectionable remarks, particularly against the army and judiciary. Pemra also issued an “advice” to all the satellite television channels to install a […]
KARACHI: Renowned Israeli journalist, Amira Hass, who has spent decades documenting Israeli atrocities in the occupied territories of Palestine, once remarked that it was a reporter’s “job to monitor the centres of power”. Jean-Pierre Perrin, a war correspondent for more than 30 years argued in his talk held on Tuesday at the Alliance Française that […]
WASHINGTON: Facebook on Monday updated its “community standards” guidelines, giving users more clarity on acceptable posts relating to nudity, violence, hate speech and other contentious topics. The world’s biggest social network said it does not allow a presence from groups advocating “terrorist activity, organised criminal activity or promoting hate.” The new guidelines say Facebook will […]
Condemning the attacks on Lahore’s two churches last Sunday, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the federal and provincial governments to act decisively to protect the religious minorities’ interests if greater disasters are to be avoided. In a statement issued here on Monday, the commission said The Sunday’s attacks on two […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Geo and the Jang Group have won all the four awards of the responsible, gender-based equitable reporting by the subordinate organisation of the UN, the International Labour Organisation (ILO).A ceremony for gender-based equitable reporting awards was organised by the ILO with reference to the print and electronic media here on Monday. […]
PESHAWAR: To strongly condemn suicide attacks on two Churches in Lahore, hundreds of Christians along with Hindu and Sikhs blocked main GT Road for all sort of traffic in protest on Sunday and held government of Punjab responsible for not providing appropriate security to the worship places of minorities. They burnt tyres and blocked road […]
NEW YORK: A prominent US human rights group Sunday urged the Pakistani authorities to immediately halt the execution of an alleged child offender, which is scheduled for Thursday, and commute his sentence. An anti-terrorism court in Karachi last week approved the execution of Shafqat Hussain, who was allegedly 14 or 15 years old when sentenced […]
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