PESHAWAR, May 21: The NWFP Essential Institutional Reforms Operationalisation Programme (EIROP) is establishing the District Citizen Information Centres (DCICs) in each district of the province to improve governance and service delivery at the local level. The fifth DCIC of the province is being set up under the programme in the Swabi district for which a […]
ATTOCK, May 20: A young diabetic prisoner is fighting for life at the Attock jail hospital as he could not be shifted to the District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital due to non-availability of police guard, sources at the jail administration told Dawn, requesting not to be named. The 26-year-old diabetic under-trail prisoner, Rowaiz Khan, resident of […]
LAHORE: Police arrested a wife and her husband — a woman who underwent gender reassignment surgery 16 years ago — and accused them of lying about the husband’s gender to a court. The case, which casts a rare public spotlight on the taboo subject of transsexualism in the country, came to the attention of the […]
ISLAMABAD May 18, 2007:Unidentified assailants, allegedly members of intelligence agencies, beat up SANA News Agency Editor-in-Chief Shakeel Ahmad Turabi on Friday. The injured journalist was initially taken to KRL Hospital before being shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, where is he under observation. In a complaint registered to the Margalla Police Station, Turabi […]
PESHAWAR: The Individual-land, a non-government organisation, in its support for tribal journalists has stated, “Tribal journalists are usually pressured both by the government and the militants. All parties to the conflict in Waziristan insist that their dead are martyrs. The media are under pressure to refer to dead soldiers as ‘martyrs’ and the militants as […]
Sindh Minister for Local Government, Muhammad Hussain, has directed the town Nazims to hold regular open Kutcheries in their respective areas, at least once in a week, to resolve the grievances of the people. The minister said that various problems of the people are brought to his notice during his weekly open Kutcheri in his […]
KHAIRPUR: Members of Taluka Council, Khairpur, on Saturday expressed concern over, what they termed was, ‘a sorry state of affairs’ in the district, saying that none of the government authorities, particularly the district bureaucracy, bothered to pay heed to their concerns or recommendations. They created an uproar, saying that their recommendations were not implemented and […]
KARACHI, May 19: Sindh Local Government Minister Muhammad Hussain Khan has directed nazims of all local body institutions of the province to hold regular public meetings in their respective areas at least once a week to resolve grievances of the masses at their door steps. In a letter written to nazims of local body institutions […]
SHIKARPUR, May 19: Four people, including a woman, were killed and four others injured in separate incidents in Garhi Yasin and Khanpur talukas late on Friday night. Noor Brohi and Mir Mairee were killed while Turbat Khatoon, Zubair Brohi and Lashkar Brohi sustained bullet injuries when they were ambushed by an armed group of Marfanis […]
KARACHI, May 19: The Standing Committee of the Council of Pakistan Newspapers Editors (CPNE), at a meeting held here on Friday, condemned the breakdown of law and order in Karachi on May 12, along with the deplorable armed attack on the offices of the Business Recorder newspaper and Aaj television. At the meeting, chaired by […]
KHAIRPUR, May 19: A folk singer has criticised the government’s failure to help performing artistes. Alghoza Nawaz Mohammad Urs Bhatti raised this issue while talking to journalists on Friday. He said that though he had been performing for more than 15 years, the government had never offered him a job or a grant. “Diabetes and […]
ISLAMABAD, May 18: President General Pervez Musharraf on Friday warned against giving ethnic colour to May 12 incidents and said he will abide by the Constitution on the issue of re-election. In an interview with Aaj television aired on Friday night, President Musharraf said: “I will not violate the Constitution of Pakistan.” He said: “The […]
ISLAMABAD: “The government should protect the lives of Christians in Charsadda and provide them security against possible attacks from extremists,” stated a letter that was signed by more than 100 Christian residents of Charsadda and was sent to President General Pervez Musharraf and the NWFP chief minister. Christians at Charsadda had received threatening letters with […]
JAMSHORO: The life of ordinary people residing in Khuda Abad, once a capital of Sindh, has become miserable as armed men of two tribes have taken positions in the area after a teenaged boy and a girl belonging to two separate villages left their homes for love marriage. The couple has approached the Sindh High […]
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