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Daily Archives: July 1, 2007

Pemra stops FM station from broadcasting BBC content

KARACHI, June 30: A local FM radio has stopped hourly news bulletins syndicated by the BBC Pakistan after the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) ordered its management to immediately stop the broadcast of “all sorts of BBC content/programmes”. Pemra in a letter to the FM 103 management said: “You are hereby directed to immediately […]


Journalist dies

LAHORE – Iftikhar Ali Agha, senior reporter of Daily Osaf died on Saturday after illness. He was laid to rest the same evening at Sanda graveyard. The funeral was attended by a large number of journalists, political and religious leaders, friends, and relatives of the deceased. Maulana Amjad Khan of MMA led the funeral prayer. […]


MoU to promote IT trade signed

KARACHII – Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) held a networking session with Mark Ellison, Managing Director, Texas Emerging Technology Fund, Faisal Amin, President Texas Trade Council (TTG) and the US Honorary Investment Consular, said a board statement. “The purpose of the event was to identify opportunities for investments, technical partnerships, international business development and collaborative […]


‘Work on media colony will begin soon’

PESHWAR -NWFP Information Minister Asif lqbal Daudzai has said on Saturday that the provincial government had prioritised the construction of the Durrani Media Colony and work will begin from the next month. The information minister expressed these views while briefing over the government’s progress on the media colony in an informal general body meeting of […]


Police press molested boy to withdraw case

ISLAMABAD – Federal Capital Police instead of providing shelter to a 15-year old boy, victim of molestation is compelling him to withdraw the FIR against the culprits namely Shahid and Ameen, the close relatives of member peace committee of Golra Police Station. Yasir Butt along with his father Naseer Butt visited the office of The […]


Girl kidnapped, married off

MANSEHRA: A teenaged girl was kidnapped and then forcefully married off while the owner of a local poultry farm was axed to death in the Atr Sheesha area here on Saturday. The girl, Jeena, 15, was abducted just before her marriage and was forcefully married to another person. Police registered a case against Afzal and […]


Two women killed over Karo-Kari

SUKKUR: A man shot dead his wife and her sister over Karo-Kari in the Bazigar Pul area in the Rashid Wagan police limits near Larkana on late Friday night. The deceased were identified as Shabnam (22) and Sharifan (29). The father of the women, Mohammad Ismail Shaikh, registered a case against his son-in-law Qalandar Bux […]


Man axes daughter to death

ATTOCK, June 30: A man axed to death his daughter and her alleged paramour in an honour killing incident at Daulatpur village in Fatehjang in the small hours of Friday. Police said Mehmood Afzal, a tenant, was sleeping in his house when he suddenly woke up on hearing some noise. On seeing his daughter with […]