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 […]
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
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD, April 24: The Ministry of Interior has decided to hold weekly press briefing on law and order situation and internal security issues, National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) Director General and ministry’s spokesman Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema said here on Tuesday. “Weekly briefing will be held on every Tuesday at 4 pm in his office,” […]
TOBA TEK SINGH, April 24: Arrouti police and residents of the area were searching on Tuesday for the pieces of the body of a 15-year-old girl who was axed to death by her uncle in the name of honour in Mauza Chah Mirali Wala, some 50 kilometres from here near Head Sidhnai, on March 29. […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)- A newspaper warns that Jews and Christians are engaged in “genocide” against Muslims. A Web site says children should love guns instead of cricket. A video shows a child beheading a militant accused of betraying his comrades. Despite government promises to crack down, hate-filled jihadist propaganda is thriving in Pakistan, especially in […]
ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has served a show-cause notice on private television channel Aaj TV for airing news, talk shows and other programmes on the judicial crisis in Pakistan and threatened the channel with closure. The notice issued on 22 April 2007 said that the TV channel had violated the […]
ISLAMABAD: Workers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) on Tuesday beat up a producer of Business Plus, a private TV channel, outside the Supreme Court building during the presidential reference hearing. Noman Khalid, producer of Business Plus, was covering the PML rally when PML activists attacked him without provocation. Khalid suffered minor injuries and […]
ISLAMABAD:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting clarified on Wednesday that no application by Aaj TV for grant of no objection certificate for temporary uplinking facility was pending with the Ministry. A spokesman for the Ministry said in a statement that taking notice of media reports regarding non-issuance of NoC by the Ministry for the purpose, […]
Taking unofficial steps against Royal TV, Its broadcast was banned in federal capital and Rawalpindi through local cable operators. According to press release issued by Royal TV, government issued directives to cable operators to stop Royal TV transmission for its strong coverage to the reference against Chief Justice of Pakistan. After it, Royal TV transmission […]
” 
” 
” 
” 
” 
