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Daily Archives: March 7, 2016

Pakistan’s 1st online legal service launched

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ISLAMABAD – Promising hassle-free services at one click, Pakistan’s first online legal services have been launched here yesterday. The portal wukla. com offers advice, connects to lawyers and gets legal documents delivered straight to client’s doorstep. Altaf Qureshi, the co-owner of the project, said that the new website will be a combination of law and […]


Know your rights: Decoding the Nikahnama

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KARACHI: Couples are mostly unaware of the rights and privileges that are safeguarded under the Nikahnama when they put their names on the dotted line. This was the premise of an interactive seminar on family laws held at a vocational centre in Yousuf Goth on Sunday. The event, organised by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Insitute […]


Studying Pakistan’s growing obsession with smartphones

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KARACHI: Samreen Babar, a resident of Gulshan-e-Hadeed, has been feeling ‘connected’ ever since she bought a smartphone last month. The 32-year-old housewife now uses her new gadget to connect with her sister-in-law in London, talk to her brother in Germany and keep abreast of social media updates of her family and friends through Skype, WhatsApp […]


Fishermen safely disentangle giant manta ray, release back into sea

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KARACHI: In a moving demonstration of changing attitudes to threatened marine species, fishermen looking for tuna 158 kilometres south-west of Karachi safely released a giant manta ray back into the sea after it got entangled in their fishing net recently, according to officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P). The species had a […]


Television channels, press club attacked by activists of religious groups.

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Offices of television channels were attacked and media crews beaten up on 4 March during protest rallies and sit ins in major cities across Pakistan against the execution of Mumtaz Qadri convicted for murder of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer of whom he was police guard. Qadri had shot Taseer multiple times in 2011 because the […]