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Daily Archives: May 6, 2007

Schoolgirls in Mardan forced to wear burqa

PESHAWAR, May 5: Students of a girls’ school in Mardan have started wearing burqa after their school received threatening letters from some militants. The letters sent to the Government Girls Higher Secondary School in Par Hoti, Mardan, asked the administration to advise schoolgirls to veil themselves in accordance with the Islamic code. “The frightened students […]


Journalists detained, sent back to Peshawar

PESHAWAR, May 5: The political administration of the Khyber Agency on Saturday detained four Peshawar-based journalists when they entered the tribal area on Saturday. Speaking at the Peshawar Press Club, Hashmat Lodhi, Saiful Islam Saiffi, Alamgir Khan and Raja Imran Mehr said that when they reached the Ali Masjid checkpost in Landi Kotal, along with […]


Three TV channels off air for hours

Three TV channels off air for hours KARACHI, May 5: Three television news channels went off the air on Saturday afternoon, depriving viewers in Karachi and southern Sindh of the live coverage of the caravan of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry proceeding to Lahore from Islamabad. The transmission of the channels – Geo, ARY and […]