LAHORE, Feb 2: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has demanded that the authorities fulfill their promise to guarantee women’s safety and dignity of person by ensuring that all those responsible for carrying out or conniving in crimes are punished under the law and a clear message sent out that such crimes will not be […]
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 9: A complete strike paralysed the Muzaffarabad city on Friday against the abduction of a university student. Thousands of people from all walks of life took part in demonstrations. However, the abducted girl was recovered by police within four hours from Bagh district and later reunited with the family, officials said. Maryam Banday, […]
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Hyderabad district council session HYDERABAD: The ongoing session of the Hyderabad district council was adjourned on Monday till Tuesday after the journalists covering the session boycotted the proceedings to protest the remarks of a member against the press. The council, which met with its convener Zafar Ali Rajput in the chair, was discussing three identical […]
ISLAMABAD: The journalists of Rawalpindi and Islamabad staged a six-hour sit-in in front of the Press Information Department here on Thursday to press the government to punish the police officer who ordered a baton-charge on reporters and photographers covering a suicide attack outside a five star hotel. During the protest, the journalists shouted slogans against […]
LAHORE: Police in Khushab district have registered a case against five Ahmadis, including two pre-teens, for subscribing to the Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya’s monthly children’s magazine Tasheezul Azhan, Daily Times has learnt. According to the first information report, the complainant, an officer of the Intelligence Bureau, submitted to the Khushab district police officer (DPO) that the magazine is […]
KARACHI: Reporter of a private TV channel and a student from the Karachi University’s Urdu department, were maltreated by some students alleged to be the activists of a student organisation at the campus, on Thursday. The reporter informed The News that he was on a visit to the university on some personal errand, when passing […]
Talking to a 10-member delegation of the action committee of journalists headed by senior journalist Shamim Shahid, the chief minister said progress has been made with regard to Sohail’s recovery. He said he was shocked over the kidnapping of Sohail. “We are striving hard to get Sohail recovered from kidnappers as soon as possible so […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1: A high level meeting has come up with a number of recommendations for the implementation of a constitutional provision, favouring the use of Urdu for official and other purposes. Federal ministers Wasi Zafar, (Law, Justice, Human Rights), Zobeida Jalal (Special Education), Muhammad Ali Durrani (Information and Media Development) and Prof Dr Atta […]
KARACHI, Feb 1: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Thursday said the model status assumed by Karachi during the last one year with reference to international challenges of urbanisation and the start of fast-track development process had not only been liked world over but also there was emphasis today on its adoption as a model […]
Karachi: The death of renowned journalist and media owner Kazi Saeed Akbar, who passed away on January 30 at the Aga Khan Hospital, has been widely condoled. He leaves behind two sons, one of whom succeeds him as editor in his English daily Regional Times, and one daughter. Saeed was born on August 22, 1939 […]
KARACHI, Feb 1: At least 38 women, including three minor girls and 86 men, were murdered and some fifteen women injured in Sindh during the first month of this year, says a report. The report, prepared by the Aurat Foundation Karachi, issued on Thursday said some 31 people, including 17 women, were murdered on the […]
MULTAN:Two men have been arrested for allegedly bludgeoning their sister and her lover to death with bricks in a Pakistani village, a gruesome slaying that one of the suspects said was carried out to restore family honour, police said. In another village, police detained six men accused of abducting and raping a teenage girl after […]
KARACHI: A Pakistani rape victim who became a prominent women’s rights campaigner said on Thursday violence against women was increasing in Pakistan because authorities were not serious about punishing the perpetrators. Mukhtaran Mai, who was gang-raped in 2002 on the orders of a traditional village council, said she was appalled by a similar attack on […]
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