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Daily Archives: April 17, 2007

Tribes warned against holding Jirgas on Karo-Kari issues

KHAIRPUR: Sardar Ghulam Sarwar Sarki, the OSD to Chief Minster Sindh Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim on Jirga committees, held here on Monday meetings with the elites of different tribes and urged them to reconcile their feuds through holding Jirgas and save Sindh from complete devastation. Sarki said that the increasing crime rate was causing the […]


Two killed over Karo-Kari

SUKKUR: Two persons, including a woman, were shot dead over Karo-Kari in a small village here on Monday night. Police reports said Allah Dino Junejo of the Garho (Roshanabad) village, suspecting that his wife Naziran, 25, had illicit relations with a man named Nasrullah Junejo, shot her dead and later also gunned down Nasrullah at […]


Raped for being opposition’s polling agent

Karachi A resident of Kunri, Umerkot, who was subjected to rape by five men in February last year, has arrived in Karachi seeking justice. Nadira Parveen was raped as a punishment for serving as a polling agent of the opposition party against Taluka Nazim Mohammad Jam Memon. After a suo moto action taken by the […]


Media women body’s election

KARACHI,April 17: Fawzia Naqvi and Farah Ali were elected as the president and general secretary of the Media Women Publishers & Journalists Organisation (MWP&JO). The elections of MWP&JO were held at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi in which Mehreen Illahi, Farzana Rehman and Ghazala Fasih were elected as senior vice president and vice presidents, […]


City council slams attack on newsmen

KARACHI, April 16: Members of the city council expressed rare solidarity on Monday when the Treasury and Opposition benches submitted a number of resolutions in the house. The session was presided over by Naib Nazim Ms Nasreen Jalil. The council in a unanimous resolution condemned the attack on journalists during a recent lawyers’ rally and […]


Media-lawyers tussle resolution urged

Karachi,17 April:The ongoing tussle between the lawyers and media would damage the movement for the independence of judiciary which should be resolved amicably and nobody should be allowed to create rift between them. This was decided at a joint meeting of the mediating committee of the legal fraternity and journalists held at the Karachi Press […]


FM radio at Karachi University starts transmission

KARACHI (April 17 2007): The Campus FM Radio of the University of Karachi successfully began its test transmission from Sunday evening. This was stated by Project Director of the KU’s FM Radio Professor Muhammad Inam Bari Jaffery, while talking to newsmen. He said the test transmission, which began with recitation from the Holy Quran, continued […]


Lawyers meet media, want close ties

KARACHI, April 16: The journalists committee set up to resolve the row between them and the lawyers following Friday’s incident, observed on Monday that attempts to obstruct the resolve differences between them would amount to subverting the campaign underway to restore independence of the judiciary and vowed that nobody would be allowed to do so. […]