ISLAMABAD, May 22: The winners of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) “Award for Journalists 2007” are Bahzad Alam Khan of Dawn newspaper for best English write-up and Bushra Ejaz of Khabrain newspaper for best Urdu write-up. This was announced in a press release issued by the ICRC here on Tuesday. According to […]
ISLAMABAD (May 23 2007): Children are assets for a better and brighter future of Pakistan and the ” media should play a vital role in making this dream true”. This view was expressed by speakers at a one-day capacity-building workshop to sensitise the media persons about the child labour issues in the country. The workshop […]
SUKKUR: Three people, including a woman, were gunned down by a man on Tuesday morning over Karo-Kari in the Ameer Bux Solangi Village in the Machko Police limits on the Sindh-Punjab border near Ubauro. The accused suspected that his wife Mai Kundal had formed illicit relations with Arz Mohammad Gopang. He shot dead his wife […]
A woman was hammered to death by her husband over a petty domestic issue in Model Colony police limits on Tuesday, however, the police caught the accused. The SHO Model Colony Rao Zaheer said that Allah Rakhi, 24 was hammered to death by her husband Nazeer Ahmed in their house in Sheet-28, near Faryal School. […]
KARACHI, May 22: An 18-year-old woman was beaten to death allegedly by her husband. Model Colony police said Nazir, hailing from Kashmore, hit his wife, Allah Rakhi, with a cricket bat in their house in Sheet 24. The woman, who received fatal injuries to her head, died before she could be shifted to hospital. Nazir […]
LAHORE, May 22: Describing the same-sex marriage as un-Islamic and unlawful, the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sent to jail the Faisalabad couple whose marriage turned out to be the first case of its kind in the country when a medical examination revealed that the husband too was a woman. The court also issued show-cause […]
KHYBER AGENCY-A leader of an Islamic militant organisation, Lashkar-i-Islam, in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), issued a death threat to a local journalist on 22 May 2007. Mangal Bagh declared that Nasrullah Afridi, a correspondent with “Daily Mashriq” and “The News”, was to be “killed with missiles”, and announced that […]
KARACHI – A Pakistani journalist is seeking Rs. 50 million ($833,333) in damages from the BBC, claiming it inferred he was connected with the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer. Ehsan Qureshi, a correspondent with APP, said the British broadcaster used footage of him talking to Woolmer in a defamatory manner. The segment, part […]
CHARSADDA: The 25-year old man arrested Monday night on charges of bombing a music shop in Sherpao village used to lead Friday prayers at a mosque in a poor locality in Charsadda town and often gave sermons on the blessings of jihad. Sources told The News that Saeed, son of Zafran, used to lead the […]
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