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Daily Archives: February 10, 2007

Balochistan to have women police: PPO

QUETTA, Feb 9: The Provincial Police Officer of Balochistan, Tariq Masood Khosa, has said that Balochistan would soon have a women’s wing in the police force and the chief minister has approved the project for inducting women in police. Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, he said that in the first phase 50 […]


Pemra bill falls prey to National Assembly’s incomplete quorum

ISLAMABAD: Maintaining quorum in the National Assembly seems to becoming an uphill task for the government with every passing day, as Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) bill fell prey to this chronic problem on Friday when the lower house was adjourned well before its scheduled time. It was the second embarrassing moment for the […]


Dawn bundles snatched

LARKANA, Feb 9: Some unidentified motorcyclists stopped a van carrying different newspapers near Jhukarjodaro on Friday papers and snatched away at gunpoint bundles of the Dawn. The newspaper agent has lodged a case at the Taluka police station and informed the DPO about the incident. Source: Dawn Date:2/10/2007


Attack on journalists condemned

LAHORE: The representatives of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and other bodies of the lawyers while strongly condemning the attack on journalists in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) premises have asked the Punjab Bar Council (PBC) to take disciplinary action against the bar members responsible for sad incident. While addressing a press conference […]


Pakistan’s web portal is up again, but with jolts

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government’s web portal – www.pakistan.gov.pk – along with a dozen other official websites of various departments and ministries is finally accessible after an outage since Thursday. The other affected websites included Ministry of IT & Telecommunication, Ministry of Commerce, E-Government Directorate (EGD) and others. ‘The News’ learnt through a number of cyber savvy […]


Pakistan’s web portal is up again, but with jolts

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan government’s web portal – www.pakistan.gov.pk – along with a dozen other official websites of various departments and ministries is finally accessible after an outage since Thursday. The other affected websites included Ministry of IT & Telecommunication, Ministry of Commerce, E-Government Directorate (EGD) and others. ‘The News’ learnt through a number of cyber savvy […]


Foreign film unit shoots in Mirpurkhas

MIRPURKHAS: A 30-member film unit comprising Indian, American and Pakistani actors arrived here for shooting a documentary amid tight security. The unit has Indian actors Nandita Das, Saif Rahman and American actors Jaesse James, Michael Schefit, Sufian and Nina Khan, besides Pakistani stars Nouman Aijaz and Zalay Sarhadi. It spent a busy day while shooting […]