WASHINGTON: Among those imprisoned at Guantanamo is a journalist who was handed over to US forces by Pakistani authorities in December 2001. Sami al Hajj, a 38 year old Sudanese, was in Afghanistan as a photographer for the AI Jazeera TV network. According to a report by AP, he was stopped at the Afghan border […]
KARACHI, Feb 25: Liaquatabad Town Nazim Osama Qadri has imposed ban on manufacture and sale of gutka, mainpuri and other such items in the town. He also appealed to the people to extend cooperation in this regard and inform on telephone number 9260342, if they found anybody violating the ban in the town limits. Source: […]
ISLAMABAD: Shortly before it was prorogued on Friday, the National Assembly adopted the new Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business–the fourth one since Independence. Whenever a Parliament frames new Rules, it moves up in achieving greater autonomy and freedom. This was obvious from the statement of Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sher Afgan Niazi, who spoke […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 25: A religious zealot scared journalists to death, and landed himself in police lock-up, by announcing at a press conference here on Sunday that he was going to blow himself up. “Recite Kalima and be prepared to die as I am strapped with explosives and going to blow myself up,” the man declared […]
KARACHI, Feb 25: The inspector-general of police, Sindh, Jehangir Mirza, has ordered the establishment of a special Human Rights Cell where both men and women police personnel will be deployed. The IG made the decision in this regard while talking to a five-member delegation of an NGO of women rights at Central Police Office, said […]
HYDERABAD: Seven armed men on Sunday kidnapped the younger brother of Additional Inspector General (AIG) Sindh jails, Ashiq Ali Memon. Amjad Memon was abducted from his petrol station near Hala bypass at about 8 p.m. The Sindh AIG confirmed that his brother was kidnapped and added that different police parties have been dispatched for his […]
LAHORE, Feb 25: Veteran journalist and media rights activist Minhaj Barna was operated upon successfully at a Garden Town hospital for a bone fracture on Sunday. Mr Barna, a former president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, had come to the city from Islamabad to attend a meeting for forming South Asia Press Commission’s […]
LAHORE: A constitutional petition, asking for a declaration that the press has the freedom to expose the truth, has been moved in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, according to a press release issued on Sunday. In the petition, filed under Article 184 (3) of the Constitution, Safdar Iqbal of Islamabad has stated that because a […]
In times When the Whole country is talking about women s participation in The forthcoming elections, provincial Minister for Social Welfare, Zill-eÂHuma’s murder came as a blow for the whole nation. A seminar in Karachi concluded that women should stand for their rights and do not Stay for their right and do not stay away […]
HYDERABAD, Feb 26: The mother of a teenage girl, allegedly sold by her (late) father when she was one-year-old after incurring heavy debt in gambling, has threatened to immolate herself if the girl, now 16, is not saved from being handed over to a middle-aged man. Speaking at a news conference at the press club […]
LARKANA, Feb 24: The Larkana investigation police on Saturday arrested two people nominated in the case involving the gang rape of three women in a village 10km off here. However, Rajib Khuhawar and five other unidentified nominated accused are still at large. Sheroo Bagri, a farmer, told this correspondent that eight men barged into his […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 24: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) President Christopher Warren and UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Chief Chris Morley on Saturday expressed their concern over the growing incidents of violence against journalists in Pakistan. Speaking at a roundtable conference on “State of Press Freedom in Pakistan”, organised jointly by the IFJ and the […]
Media delegation calls on information minister: Journalists in tribal areas will get govt protection: Durrani * ‘Wage board award issue to be resolved within weeks’ ISLAMABAD: “The government is ready to provide protection to journalists if they want to travel to the tribal areas,” said Federal Information Minister Muhamamd Ali Durrani on Saturday. He said […]
PESHAWAR, Feb 24: A man was sentenced here on Saturday to 16-month rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing a child. Additional district and sessions judge Jamaluddin Khan ruled that the evidence on record had proved that the accused, Ijaz Khan, had committed the crime. Chamkani police officials, who had arrested Ijaz Khan on September 18, 2005, […]
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