LAHORE, May 13: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is deeply aggrieved at the loss of life and bloodshed caused by the violence perpetuated in Karachi on Saturday. In a statement here on Sunday, it said all reports indicated that it was the result of a calculated adventure hatched by the Presidency and the […]
LAYYAH, May 13: In a brazen-faced demonstration of how frail blood relations become in the world of stonehearted chauvinists, two brothers have chopped off an ear and nose of their sister-in-law for her refusal to marry her daughter to the son of one of them. The incident took place the other day at Laskaniwala village […]
DADU, May 13: A man and a woman were killed over charges of having illicit relations in the Mian Jo Goth village of Mehar taluka on Saturday night. Reports reaching here said that one Ali Hassan shot dead his cousin Azeem and surrendered to Thariri Mohabbat police with a pistol. Soon afterwards, his brother Gul […]
Editorial comments, “Karachi incidents completely reject government claims for freedom of expression and press. Media persons are working without any security. ARY correspondent was asked to leave Karachi along with Chief Justice. It is sensitive time for country; it requires that civil society representatives and media organizations should work together for freedom of expression.” (Nawa-i-Waqt-) […]
ISLAMABAD, May 13: Speakers on Sunday demanded that the government should protect media organisations and journalists to ensure freedom of the press in Pakistan. While speaking at a conference on freedom of media and a condolence meeting in memory of Ahmed Ali Khan, former editor-in-chief of Dawn, they said that media organisations would never tolerate […]
ISLAMABAD (May 14 2007): A number of isssues about people’s right to be informed and the media freedom as well as the incidence of five hour long prolonged firing on Aaj TV channel and Business Recorder offices in Karachi on Saturday were condemned at the Media Conference hosted by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists […]
KARACHI, May 13: A senior journalist and former staff reporter of Dawn, G. D. Ghauri, died of a protracted illness here on Sunday afternoon. He was 79. He leaves a widow — Najma Ghauri, a retired associate professor of the Govt College for Women (Shahrah-i-Liaquat) – a son and a daughter. He was buried in […]
HYDERABAD, May 13: Journalists in several districts and towns of the province staged rallies on Sunday in protest against attack on Aaj TV and media men in Karachi. The Hyderabad Union of Journalists (HUJ) held a demonstration outside the press club. Leaders of the union who led the protest demanded that the government should take […]
KARACHI, May 12: Armed men attacked the office of a private television channel and set on fire more than a dozen vehicles in its parking lot here on Saturday. The Aaj TV was telecasting live footage of youths brandishing guns in front of its offices on the Business Recorder Road and firing on their rivals […]
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to set up a Writers’ Club in Punjab Institute of Languages Art and Culture (PILAC) in order to provide a platform to blossoming writers, officials told Daily Times on Saturday. The officials said the writers’ club building would be constructed on the PILAC cafeteria and would have a 400 […]
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