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Daily Archives: November 12, 2015

Geo Super to telecast BD Premier League

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ISLAMABAD: Geo Super will televise live and exclusive Bangladesh (BD) Premier League–2015 starting on November 22 likewise as Geo Super presented 1st edition of BPL back in 2012. The main characteristic of the event was the presence of fully loaded Pakistani players who had attracted not only Pakistani cricket lovers but also got attention from […]


Ban on New Murree City Project: Supreme Court seeks compliance report from Punjab environment officials

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ISLAMABAD: The country’s top court has sought a reply from the Punjab government on the violation of a six-year-old judgment regarding the protection of the environment in Murree tehsil. A three-member bench — headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali — on Wednesday took up the plea of residents of Murree, seeking directions […]


PM vows to protect rights of all religious communities

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KARACHI: Prime Minis­ter Nawaz Sharif has said that all religious communities living in Pakistan enjoy equal rights and vowed to safeguard them. Speaking at a ceremony organised by the minority wing of the PML-N’s Sindh chapter to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali at a hotel here on Wednesday, he said: “Every community living here […]


Journalist abducted and questioned

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Muhammad Afzal Mughal, vice president of the Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ), Muhammad Afzal Mughal was picked up from his house and detained almost fifteen hours, in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southern Balochistan province. Balochistan is the most dangerous province in Pakistan for journalists, because of militancy by Baloch nationalist insurgents and Taliban factions, […]


Pemra chief’s appointment notified

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ISLAMABAD: The establishment division issued on Wednesday a notification about the appointment of senior journalist Absar Alam as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority. However, the new chairman will take charge of his assignment next month. The electronic media regulator has been without a regular chairman since Dec 2013 when Chaudhry Rasheed was […]