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Daily Archives: January 16, 2007

Akhtar Mengal’s guards missing since November

QUETTA: Fifteen of Balochistan National Party President Sardar Akhtar Mengal’s bodyguards and servants have been missing since he was moved from house arrest in Lasi Farmhouse in Lasbela, where his men were with him, to a jail in Karachi in November. BNP members believe they have been detained by intelligence agencies. Military Intelligence has taken […]


Disciplinary action against local government functionaries

ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has strongly opposed a proposal to assign disciplinary powers to Nazims and Naib Nazims against local government functionaries. Rejecting the proposal to create district service as recommended by the National Reconstruction Bureau (NRB) and Civil Service Reform Unit (CSRU) of the Establishment Division, the provincial administration said that such powers would […]


Call for release of youths

KARACHI: Speakers at a protest demonstration on Monday warned that if the three Shia youths who had been ‘picked up’ by the secret agencies over six months back were not released by Muharram, a countrywide protest would be launched. Addressing at the protesters, the speakers said if they were required for any investigations they should […]


Police refuse to register FIR of ‘enforced disappearance’

HYDERABAD: The Bhitai Nagar police on Monday refused to register an FIR about ‘enforced disappearance’ of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz activist Sikandar alias Akash Mallah on the complaint of party chief Bashir Qureshi. Mr Mallah is missing since May 16 after being allegedly picked up by the personnel of intelligence agencies with another activist Manjhi […]


Girl recovered

NAWABSHAH: The B-section police raided a house in the red light area in old Nawabshah on Monday and re-covered a 19 year old girl. The girl, Nagina, told newsmen that she had been married to one Zardar by her parents in Swat, who took her to Karachi and sold her for Rs 30,000. She said […]


Girl recovered

NAWABSHAH: The B-section police raided a house in the red light area in old Nawabshah on Monday and re-covered a 19 year old girl. The girl, Nagina, told newsmen that she had been married to one Zardar by her parents in Swat, who took her to Karachi and sold her for Rs 30,000. She said […]


A hundred years of radio

THE percentage of people listening to the radio in this country these days has dropped. Perhaps it’s because television has managed to spread its tentacles into regions previously considered inaccessible. Or because other sources of receiving news, like the internet or the mobile phone have surfaced. But there was a time when the square box […]


Condolence: Journalist and poet, Anwer Peerzado

Talking on this occasion with sons and other relatives of late Peerzado, the minister lauded the valuable contribution made by late journalist in journalism and literature.He offered fateha for the departed soul.MNA Nisar Ahmed Panhwar was also present on this occastion. Source: The Nation Date:1/16/2007


A hundred years of radio

THE percentage of people listening to the radio in this country these days has dropped. Perhaps it’s because television has managed to spread its tentacles into regions previously considered inaccessible. Or because other sources of receiving news, like the internet or the mobile phone have surfaced. But there was a time when the square box […]


Condolence: Journalist and poet, Anwer Peerzado

Talking on this occasion with sons and other relatives of late Peerzado, the minister lauded the valuable contribution made by late journalist in journalism and literature.He offered fateha for the departed soul.MNA Nisar Ahmed Panhwar was also present on this occastion. Source: The Nation Date:1/16/2007