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Daily Archives: January 5, 2007

Body formed for residential colony of journalists

In this regard he asked the concerned authorities to finalise and submit its report within 10 days period. This announcement he made in a meeting with a delegation of journalists headed by M. Riaz Khan President-elect of Peshawar Press Club at Civil Officers Mess Peshawar on Thursday. The meeting besides the newly elected cabinet and […]


Karo-Kari claims three lives

KHAIRPUR: A fifty-year-old woman and a 22-year-old man were killed over Karo-Kari near here on Thursday. According to reports reaching here from the Faiz Muhammad Bhido police station near Khairpur, Muhammad Khan Narejo and Aitbar Narejo shot dead their sister Razia, wife of Mubarak Narejo, in the village of Jamal Narejo while she was going […]


Missing persons families hold demo outside UN office

ISLAMABAD: Family members of the missing persons staged demonstration on Thursday outside the UN office in Saudi Pak Tower demanding the release of their fathers, husbands and sons and condemned President Pervez Musharraf’s “cruel regime”. The demonstration was organized by Islamic Centre for Research and Defence of Human Rights. An estimated 60 to 70 women […]


Plainclothesmen pick up three in Kabirwala: No let-up in disappearances

MULTAN: Plainclothesmen reportedly took three people into custody in Kabirwala in Khanewal district on Wednesday and Thursday. According to eyewitnesses, Naseem Rajput, 40, was at his shop around 10am on Thursday when 10 to 12 plainclothesmen along with DSP Dawood Hasnain came to his shop and asked for his cell phone number. Later, they took […]


Woman, four juveniles freed under remission

KARACHI: A woman and four juvenile prisoners were released under the 60-day remission announced by the Sindh chief minister on the occasion of Eidul Azha. According to the sources, 43 other inmates of the Special Prison for Women and 23 of the Youthful Offenders’ Industrial School also benefited from the remission as their sentences as […]


Love marriage case

MULTAN: The groom, whose nose, ears and heels were cut in revenge for contracting marriage against the tribal traditions, and his wife are receiving life threats from unidentified people for not withdrawing the complaint against the accused.When this scribe met the injured at the Nishtar Hospital on Thursday, no security personnel was there. Shahnaz Bibi, […]


Love marriage case

MULTAN: The groom, whose nose, ears and heels were cut in revenge for contracting marriage against the tribal traditions, and his wife are receiving life threats from unidentified people for not withdrawing the complaint against the accused.When this scribe met the injured at the Nishtar Hospital on Thursday, no security personnel was there. Shahnaz Bibi, […]


Woman, four juveniles freed under remission

KARACHI: A woman and four juvenile prisoners were released under the 60-day remission announced by the Sindh chief minister on the occasion of Eidul Azha. According to the sources, 43 other inmates of the Special Prison for Women and 23 of the Youthful Offenders’ Industrial School also benefited from the remission as their sentences as […]


Women’s role in education management vital: experts

RAWALPINDI: Involvement of women in higher education management would help overcome the scarcity of manpower at senior management level and provide women an opportunity to play constructive role in the society. These were the unanimous views of the experts in a two-day workshop held at Fatima Jinnah Women University on “Women in Higher Education Management”, […]


IT research board in offing, says adviser

KARACHI: An Information Technology Research and Development Board will be constituted in the province. This was stated by the adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on information technology, Noman Saigal. Talking to the representatives of IT companies in his office here on Thursday, the adviser said that this would be on the pattern of the […]


LAHORE: The Pakistan Christian National Party (PCN)

LAHORE: The Pakistan Christian National Party (PCNP) will give the ‘Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Award’ to 30 journalists on March 30, 2008, said PCNP chief M Joseph Francis on Friday. Talking to journalists at his party office, he said the award would be given to those journalists who had worked for human rights, democracy and […]


PFUJ, Apnec threaten to boycott parliament

KARACHI: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the All Pakistan Newspapers Employees Confederation (Apnec) have condemned the government’s failure to implement the 7th Wage Award and threatened to re-launch their protest with the boycott of the new parliamentary session. The PFUJ and Apnec, the two apex bodies of the newspapers employees, said Information […]


IT research board in offing, says adviser

KARACHI: An Information Technology Research and Development Board will be constituted in the province. This was stated by the adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on information technology, Noman Saigal. Talking to the representatives of IT companies in his office here on Thursday, the adviser said that this would be on the pattern of the […]


LAHORE: The Pakistan Christian National Party (PCN

LAHORE: The Pakistan Christian National Party (PCNP) will give the ‘Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Shaheed Award’ to 30 journalists on March 30, 2008, said PCNP chief M Joseph Francis on Friday. Talking to journalists at his party office, he said the award would be given to those journalists who had worked for human rights, democracy and […]