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Daily Archives: April 26, 2007

Khairpur Nazim sets up coordination panels

KHAIRPUR: District Nazim on Wednesday announced setting up of coordination committees at the police stations to maintain law and order and settle disputes through reconciliation instead of registering FIRs. Addressing a peace committee meeting, Nazim Pir Niaz Shah Jillani said with the setting up of the committees working of the police will be checked and […]


Nazim for making digital map of roads, utility services

KARACHI – City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal has directed the official concerned that a booklet containing digital map of all the city’s under-construction roads and all utility services be compiled while a library of these books be set up in the Works and Services department to make details of utilities under-ground or along the roads […]


City govt to unveil draft master plan in a fortnight

KARACHI, April 25: The city government will make public the draft Master Plan-2020 of Karachi within a fortnight after which it will be presented to the City Council for a formal approval. City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal told Dawn on Wednesday that “in 10 to 15 days, we will present the executive summary of the […]


GANG-RAPED

A girl was allegedly gang-raped at Jatri village in the jurisdiction of Saddar Farooqabad police station on Wednesday. Reports said `I’ along with his two accomplices barged into the house of Halima Bibi and gang-raped her daughter `P’ in her presence. Source: Dawn Date:4/26/2007


Woman kills husband with lover’s help

SHEIKHUPURA, April 25: A woman slaughtered her husband with the help of her lover here on Wednesday at Damuana in Bhikhi police precincts. Reports said Safia Bibi of Damuana had married Babar of Sahiwal a few months back. The woman returned to her parents’ house after quarrelling with her husband and allegedly developed illicit relation […]


Action against TV channel criticised

KARACHI, April 25: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has severely criticised the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) for issuing a show-cause notice to the Aaj television network and demanded that draconian rules and regulations be changed for ensuring a level-playing field for all media establishments. In a resolution adopted in an emergency meeting of […]


Pakistan Press Foundation condemns attack on Ontario based journalist working for The Pakistan Post

Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF), an independent non-governmental institution committed to promoting and defending freedom of expression has condemned the attack on Ontario based journalist, Jawaad Faizi, who was beaten and threatened in what may be a revenge attack for publishing articles critical of a Pakistan-based religious group. In letters addressed to Canadian Prime Minister Rt […]


Police thrash journalists for shootout footage

LAHORE: Police beat up a reporter and a cameraman of Apna TV channel, broke their camera and damaged the reel containing footage of a police shootout on District Courts premises on Wednesday. Reporter Wasim Farooq and cameraman Atif Yasin had shot the shootout in which police shot dead one and injured two people in their […]


Pakistan slammed for media control

ISLAMABAD: International rights groups lambasted Pakistan on Wednesday for trying to throttle media critical of the government’s move to sack the top judge, after a television news channel was warned it could be taken off the air. President Pervez Musharraf’s March 9 suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been criticised by the media and […]