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Daily Archives: April 15, 2007

Gang-rape victim demands justice

ISLAMABAD: A woman, allegedly gang-raped by her relatives two years ago, demonstrated on Friday outside the Women’s Development Ministry seeking timely justice. Talking to Daily Times, Nazish Akhtar of Sialkot said she had approached Women’s Development Minister Sumaira Malik and ruling party leaders, including PML President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, for justice but that they all […]


Reporters not to cover court proceedings

Reporters covering court stories have decided that they would not cover court proceedings and hearings unless the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) assures that they would be provided protection from intimidations from the quarter concerned. This was decided at a meeting of the court reporters held at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday. The meeting, expressing […]


CPNE slams violence against journalists

KARACHI (April 15 2007): An emergency meeting of the Council of the Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE) Karachi members convened by Secretary General Wamiq A. Zuberi and presided over by Senior Vice President Dr Jabbar Khattak on Saturday strongly condemned the acts of violence and physical assault on journalists including cameramen. While covering the protest rallies […]


PBA flays attack on journalists

KARACHI (April 15 2007): Pakistan Broadcasters Association, in a press release, has strongly condemned and deplored the unwarranted attack on journalists and camera crew of ARY TV, KTN, Indus News, and Sindh TV, while they were covering the protest rallies in Karachi and Islamabad on Friday. It was utterly unfortunate that not only the cameras […]


Local Taliban raid video shop, burn CDs in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: Fear and panic gripped the area when a group of local Taliban belonging to Lal Masjid raided a video cassettes shop in Bhara Kahu, an Islamabad area, and burnt CDs and video cassettes on Saturday evening. The Bhara Kahu police, on the complaint of the locals, have arrested three Taliban from the scene and […]


Five madressah students held for torching video shop

ISLAMABAD, April 14: The police on Saturday took into custody five persons including three students of Lal Masjid from a market in Bhara Kahu where a video and CD shop was reportedly set on fire. The police said the five persons were taken into custody from Sarafa Market at Nai Abadi and a video camera […]