HOLDING the print and electronic media responsible for projecting Pakistan in a negative light, President Pervez Musharraf has criticised the press and TV for not reporting the “government’s achievements in the fields of economy, education, telecommunication and even human rights”. His objections sound strange, especially because in the same breath, the president was aglow over […]
LAHORE, May 27: The Garden Town investigation police failed to arrest Umer Irshad, main accused in the rape of two Japanese women Sheizuka and Kei, on Sunday. Police raided Umer’s Faisalabad residence on Saturday and Sunday but ended up arresting his family members. Other four accused – Adil Mansoor, Fahad Rai, Liaqat and Jalal – […]
LARKANA: The family of two small girls has been under threat for the past ten days after they refused to give up their daughters when a ‘jirga’ decided that three-year-old Tasleem and four-year-old Farzana be given as a penalty. Both girls are of the Mirjat caste. Aijaz Mirjat, their uncle, said that the girls are […]
LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), May 27: Unidentified men on Saturday night attacked the house of a journalist with grenades, causing damage to some portions of the house. Nasrullah Afridi, who works for daily Mashriq as its Khyber Agency correspondent, told Dawn the assailants threw two grenades into his home at 8.30pm, but his family members […]
PESHAWAR: The Tribal Union of Journalists (TUJ) staged a demonstration on Sunday to condemn the attack on the house of a tribal journalist and demanded the government immediately arrest the culprits. The demonstration led by TUJ President Nasir Khan Mohmand took place in front of the Peshawar Press Club. The protesting tribal journalists chanted slogans […]
May 25, 2007: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Pakistani authorities to urgently investigate and find the person responsible with threatening to kill Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) President Syed Huma Ali if he attends the IFJ World Congress in Moscow. “This is an outrageous threat to a journalists’ leader made […]
KARACHI: A new study has revealed that 35 percent of the software installed in 2006 on personal computers world-wide was obtained illegally, resulting in nearly 40 billion dollars global losses to the software industry. Pakistan’s software sector also suffered 143 million dollar loss in 2006 against 34.30 million dollars in the previous year, depicts the […]
KARACI-H:FM radio, or frequency Modulation radio, has become a ubiquitous part of life in the metropolis. From once teetering on the edge of oblivion, FM has injected new life into the medium of radio, making it an unmistakable part of the urban fabric. In Karachi alone, as of last count there were nine FM radio […]
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