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Daily Archives: April 13, 2007

Urdu Newsletter April 14 to 20 April, 2007

Summary Urdu Newsletter April 14 to 20 April, 2007 Date 4/13/2007 Download ppf newsletter vol 5 no-14.pdf


Peace in Saarc states stressed: Public dialogue

KARACHI,April 12: Former Foreign Secretary Najmuddin A. Shaikh called for developing common interests in the region and setting issues among the Saarc states to strengthen this eight-nation block. He was speaking at a public dialogue on ‘New dimensions of Saarc’, organised on Thursday by the Pakistan Press Foundation here at its Vicky Zeitlin Media Library. […]


Accused acquitted in Sonia Naz case

LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday acquitted suspended SP Khalid Abdullah and Inspector Jamshed Chishti of charges of kidnapping and raping Sorda Naz. The judge acquitted the accused while accepting their applications. Earlier, the court had repeatedly summoned the victim but she failed to appear before the court. The counsel for the […]


CD shops in Peshawar asked to close

PESHAWAR: CD shop owners in the provincial metropolis have been asked to close their businesses. ”Three boys claiming to be Lal Masjid representatives came to the Nishfarabad CDs market and asked us to shut our businesses as it was forbidden in Islam,” Nishtarabad Video Centres Union President Sher Dil told Daily Times. Sher Dit said […]


3,000 porn CDs burnt in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Judicial Magistrate Ashraf Ali set fire to nearly 3,000 pornographic CDs confiscated the police, at the Judicial Complex on Thursday. Court officials said that Faqirabad police had seized the CDs in a crack down on CD shops in Faqirabad three days ago. Police sources told Daily Times that they had started conducting raids […]


Lawyers beat journalists in city

KARACHI, Apr 13: Some of the lawyers today attacked and manhandled media photographers and reporters during their rally on M.A. Jinnah Road. They broke the camera of a photographer and beat the media persons with the batons they were carrying. Some of the media persons suffered bruises and their shirts were torn. The media persons […]