HYDERABAD: The Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Sindh, has developed a Unicode email system under the Sindhi language word processor. In an announcement, IIT professor Dr Imdad Ismaili has said the Unicode system had undergone successful tests on different websites. He the new Unicode system is also helping in composing the Sindhi language. […]
ISLAMABAD (May 04 2007): The Opposition and Treasury benches on Thursday paid tributes to print and electronic media people for their courageous role in highlighting the issues confronting the nation. Both sides urged the government to work for solution of financial problems of the journalists community by implementing the 7th Wage Board Award. The government […]
KARACHI, May 3: In the absence of the rule of law and without involving civil society in the struggle for a free press, press freedom will remain a far cry. This was the concerted view of the participants of a dialogue on “State of Press Freedom in Pakistan” organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists […]
KARACHI : Shekhupura police recovered five abducted female madrassa students on Friday, an Aaj TV channel report said. The five girl students were kidnapped from Lahore. An Aaj TV channel report said that when the five female students were not reached their homes, their parents contacted madrassa authorities and police. Police received an anonymous call […]
QUETTA: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) accused the Frontier Corps (FC) on Tuesday of setting Baloch houses on fire and looting jewellery and cash during a recent search operation in Dera Bugti. According to a press release on Tuesday, the HRCP alleged that the FC had left several hundred families homeless by setting […]
PESHAWAR: A tribal journalist, Din Mohammad, who helped media people visit Wana and its adjacent towns a few days ago suffered irreversible loss during the past three days, when foreign militants killed three of his uncles and 15-year-old brother one by one. The ill-fated reporter in Dera Ismail Khan had facilitated journalists from Peshawar, Tank […]
HYDERABAD: Nineteen-year-old Yusra Siddiqui, student of the Sindh University who had been missing since January 19, returned home in Shahdadpuri Mohalla here the other day. The girl claimed that she had been physically assaulted and tortured during the captivity. Yusra, who had been left at the gate of the Supreme Court in Islamabad during a […]
KARACHI, April 3: The Pakistan Film Exhibitors Association has withdrawn its call for a week-long strike which was scheduled to begin on Thursday after its leadership received assurances from some top government officials promising that their demands would be met. “Some top government officials have contacted me and our colleagues in the northern region (Punjab […]
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 3: A local civil judge remanded a blasphemy accused in judicial custody on Tuesday. City police had registered a blasphemy case on Monday against five Christian youths and arrested one of them, Salamat Masih. Reports said Abdul Ghaffar of Bakhshi Park locality lodged a written complaint with the police, stating that […]
PESHAWAR, April 2: The Alliance for Protection of Human Rights, a group of civil society organisations, has expressed concern over letters issued by a religious group to owners of internet cafes, video and audio-cassettes shops, asking them to wind up their businesses. “A society where poverty and unemployment is already on the rise, such acts […]
If one craves homemade lunch at a workplace, then “Amma’s thela” is perhaps the best possible choice. Parked under one of the pedestrian bridges on Shahrah-e-Faisal, ‘Amma,’ as it is popularly known, is owned by 46-year-old Tarammisa, a roadside vendor who has been selling homemade food in the commercial areas near Jason Trade Centre for […]
LAHORE,Eight people allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in Manawan here on Monday. ‘M’ told police that Sohail and his seven accomplices abducted her from Singhpura, took her to a house in Manawan and raped her. The police claimed to have arrested Sohail and four of his accomplices. Source: Dawn Date:4/3/2007
SIALKOT, April 3: Motra police could not arrest alleged rapists of a local farmer’s daughter even after a lapse of two weeks. Reports said Idrees, Abdul Ghaffar and their accomplice had abducted Muhammad Rafiq’s daughter `S’ at gunpoint on her way back home from school in Kharoliyaan-Motra, Daska two weeks ago. The accused allegedly took […]
LAYYAH, April 3: The enhancement in the term of an acid burn convict from 14- year imprisonment to 32 years might have brought smiles on the burnt lips of victim Zareena but she says it will not lessen her miseries she has been suffering for the last five years. The Layyah additional district and sessions […]
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