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 […]
CHILD labour in the country shows no signs of abating as pointed out by participants in a workshop organised by the ILO in Islamabad. While, according to a government study, the number of child labourers in Pakistan was 3.3 million in 1996, the HRCP put the figure at 10 million in 2005. This shows that […]
SWABI, May 26: The lady councillors of Swabi said on Saturday that they would continue with their protests against the unjust distribution of development funds by the district government. Led by Saima Sher, they told journalists that a major chunk of the development funds had been given to a few members and supporters of the […]
NEW YORK (May 27 2007): The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed serious concerns at reports of a spate of threatening announcements and phone calls directed at journalists in Pakistan. A CPJ statement said that on Tuesday by the ethnic Muhajir Rabita Council closely associated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement. The party allied to […]
ISLAMABAD (May 27 2007): The journalists of the twin cities Rawalpindi/Islamabad on Saturday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Supreme Court building against the alleged victimisation of Chief Editor SANA, Shakil Turrabi by secret agencies. The protesting journalists were holding placards inscribed with slogans as “Stop Harassing Journalists”, “We condemn the victimisation of […]
KARACHI (May 25 2007): The All Pakistan Newspapers Society has expressed “grave concern” at the twin statements of the MQM Rabita Committee and the Mohajir Rabita Council, denouncing journalists and analysts in the print and electronic media as being “anti-Mohajir” and as “biased chauvinists.” The press release of the Mohajir Rabita Council specifically names 13 […]
HYDERABAD: A local leader of the Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat, Kazi Zameeruddin, here on Thursday alleged her daughter was tortured by the headmistress of a missionary school on May 12. He told newsmen that his daughter Saleha Kazi, a computer teacher, was beaten up by the headmistress and two other teachers of the St Bonaventure High School, […]
KARACHI, May 25: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has urged the president and prime minister to take notice of recent statements of Mohajir Rabita Council (MRC) and MQM Rabita Committee against journalists and said that such deliberations may generate hatred against the press. In a statement signed by APNS secretary-general Mohammad Aslam Kazi, it […]
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