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Daily Archives: May 24, 2007

Fund not being released: nazim

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, May 23: The finance department of district government is not releasing funds therefore, sports activities could not begin, complains UC nazim, Phul. Mohammad Hayat Phul during the district council meeting on Wednesday said that he, being chairman district sports committee, contacted the official concerned for release of funds but to no avail. Source: […]


SHC allows woman to marry

SUKKUR: Erum Maseeh, who became Maryam after converting to Islam, was allowed to marry of her own free will with a police constable by the Sindh High Court Bench, Sukkur, on Wednesday. Erum, resident of Ghotki, had left her house early on Monday with Constable Rafiq Mirani. On Wednesday she appeared before the SHC and […]


HRCP condemns govt decision to ban magazine

LAHORE: The Balochistan chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Wednesday condemned the provincial government’s decision to close down the monthly Sumalan published from Bolan. The commission called the move a flagrant violation of the right to freedom of expression and an attack on the freedom of the press. The commission, in […]


Appeasement unending

The MMA government of the NWFP has finally struck a deal with the maulvi who in the past had asked his followers to resist polio vaccination. This is the same cleric who once said in an interview that he saw no reason for women to venture outside their homes –not even to get an education. […]


Ethnic parties denounces journalists as chauvinists

Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC), an ethnic political group in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, has denounced twelve Pakistani journalists as being ‘chauvinists,’ and criticized their role in the violence during protest rallies held in Karachi on May 12, 2007, during the visit of the suspended Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary to the city. […]